![]() –ETĭavid Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus Karen Russell called it “a thrilling, terrifying, surprising, and tender debut,” and Matthew Thomas wrote that “it’s hard to imagine a story more necessary now than one about humanity somehow persisting in the face of civilization’s collapse.” Can’t disagree with that very much looking forward to this one. In Hood’s post-pandemic (Shark Flu, in this case) novel, two survivors are just beginning to rebuild when they discover that their daughter has joined a cult clear across the country-and they drop everything to travel the dying nation to save her. Like Ng’s previous novels, this one promises to be thrillingly paced and deeply felt. When a mysterious drawing spurs a quest to find her, Bird relies on an underground network of librarians and ancient folktales to guide him. Our Missing Hearts tells the story of 12-year-old Bird Gardner, who lives with his father in a near future governed by laws written to “preserve American culture.” Bird’s mother, a Chinese American poet whose work has been banned from libraries, left the family when he was nine. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her first novel since the runaway hit Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng ventures into (slightly) speculative fiction territory. ![]()
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