A review by ciwanski
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

What a chilling premonition of what our future could very much become. Ng puts together the ugly puzzle pieces of American racism, otherness, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia into the full picture of some of the very worst ways our country could “progress” and does so in such beautiful and easy language to make a very powerful story. 

Honestly at first I genuinely thought the novel was based in the 40s/50s and thought I might be a bit bored by it, but I was very much mistaken. I flew through this audiobook in just about a day. 

I know Ng quotes Margaret Atwood in her author’s note, and it brought to mind how complimentary their story telling is. I’m not sure if this would be classified as a dystopian novel (since it’s so based in reality, but aren’t they all?), but it definitely should be! 
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