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Starred Review on August 1, 2022 | Fiction
Incorporating recent events into her narrative, the best-selling Ng (Little Fires Everywhere) crafts a dystopian tale about societal repression and a mother's love. It follows the quest of 12-year-old Bird ("Noah") Gardner to understand why his Chinese American mother, published poet Margaret Miu, seemingly abandoned him and his father, Ethan, three years earlier. Instructed by his father to deny any association to his mot...Log In or Sign Up to Read More