Did any particular event or moment inspire the story? Our Missing Hearts is a (slightly) more dystopian version of our current world. “The way to get through the situation, for me, was to write my way into it and hopefully through it,” she explains over a recent phone call.īelow, the author opens up about the years-long process of writing the book, her love of librarians, and being Rick rolled by her preteen son. At the heart of the story is Bird, a Chinese-American 12-year-old boy longing for his missing mom-so he sets off on a dangerous quest to find her.įor Ng, writing Our Missing Hearts helped her process the bigotry and violence of the actual world, especially following the slate of anti-Asian hate crimes that have taken place since 2020 and beyond. government in Our Missing Hearts has enacted a controversial law designed to promote patriotism instead, it largely works to separate children from their suspected dissident parents. Set in an extremely-near-future in which anti-Asian racism is ubiquitous, the U.S. That kind of success would be enough to make any writer feel content to rest on their laurels for the next decade or two-but today, Ng is back with her newest novel, the searing, powerful Our Missing Hearts.
A #1 New York Times bestseller, the suspenseful, thought-provoking book was adapted in 2020 into an award-winning Hulu miniseries starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, with Ng serving as a producer. Although her first novel, 2014’s Everything I Never Told You, earned serious acclaim, Celeste Ng didn’t become a household name until the release of Little Fires Everywhere three years later.
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