Why Celeste Ng's new book places an Asian American mom in the eye of a social justice movement.
Oct. 5, 2022, 10:14 PM UTCAuthor Celeste Ng’s latest book, “Our Missing Hearts,” is her most political yet, and that’s why, she said, it was appropriate to center the relationship between mother Margaret Miu and her 12-year-old son Bird.
“The way that you raise your children and the act of having children and trying to raise them into members of society feels very political to me,” Ng said. “For many people, you only start thinking about the future when you start being involved in raising a child or you have some stake in the future. … Your investment immediately in the future becomes very tangible.”
Much about Miu, who disappeared three years ago, is initially a mystery to Bird. His father, who abides by the rules of the state, has allowed few traces of her in their lives. But with the prodding of classmate Sadie, who was forcibly separated from her own parents, and a mysterious drawing addressed to Bird, he begins to seek information and finds help through a network of librarians bent on finding missing people as a result of PACT.
“In our culture, there’s this broad idea that what is domestic is not political. Things that happen in the home — the raising of children, usually by women, managing the house, doing all those things — those are domestic and therefore they’re small,” Ng said. “Whereas the political was the stuff that’s outward-facing and trying to be changed versus trying to preserve and conserve and nurture.”
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