![]() But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. ![]() ![]() To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to re-locate 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 C hinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.īird 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. 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. Bird knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. ![]() Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet and circumspect existence with his loving but broken father, a talented linguist now relegated to shelving books in a library. ![]() From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply heartwrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. ![]()
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