12岁的伯德-加德纳与他那慈爱但破碎的父亲过着平静的生活，他以前是一名语言学家，现在在大学图书馆里摆放书籍。伯德知道不要问太多的问题，不要太突出，也不要走得太远。十年来，在多年的经济不稳定和暴力之后，他们的生活一直被为保护 “美国文化 “而制定的法律所支配。为了维持和平和恢复繁荣，当局现在被允许重新安置持不同政见者的子女，特别是那些亚裔子女，而图书馆也被迫删除被视为不爱国的书籍–包括伯德的母亲玛格丽特的作品，她是一位华裔美国诗人，在伯德9岁的时候离开了家庭。
伯德从小就不承认他的母亲和她的诗；他不知道她的作品或她的遭遇，他知道他不应该怀疑。但是，当他收到一封神秘的信，里面只有一幅神秘的画，他被拉进了寻找母亲的旅程。他的旅程将带他回到她小时候灌输给他的许多民间故事，穿过地下图书管理员网络的行列，进入那些被带走的孩子的生活，最后来到纽约市，在那里，一个新的反抗行为可能是亟需改变的开始。
本书是一个全新的老故事，讲述了所谓的文明社区可以忽视最令人痛心的不公正现象。这是一个关于艺术创造变革的力量和局限性的故事，我们传递给孩子们的教训和遗产，以及我们中的任何一个人如何在一个破碎的世界中保持完整的心。
From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.
Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s a story about the power—and limitations—of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact.
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