Celeste Ng's third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is her most beautiful work yet. The child of a Chinese-American poet, Bird Gardner deeply misses his mother who left the family under questionable circumstances when he was nine. This is the story of a nation that has turned against itself. There is a Crisis and China is to blame. America has a legacy of taking children from their homes (separating enslaved families, boarding schools for Indigenous children), and this time the target is those who support or are of AAPI ancestry. Reminiscent of the Underground Railroad, a secret system develops via libraries that help to find our missing hearts, all the children. Our Missing Hearts examines the need to create art during times of cataclysm and the impact of a mother's love. This is a stunning book that wrecked me in that - this future America Ng has created - sometimes feels already here.