Brave New World Book Club: Our Missing Hearts

Name: Brave New World Book Club: Our Missing Hearts
Start: 2025-10-09T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 200 N 4th St, Clear Lake, IA, United States, Iowa 50428

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

200 N 4th St, Clear Lake, IA, United States, Iowa 50428 | Clear Lake, IA

Brave New World Book Club is an opportunity to discuss books that challenge our views of the world and society. We read a range of dystopian, speculative fiction, science fiction, and other genres that force us to take a deeper look at the world around us.
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng: Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him.

Then one day Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of heroic librarians, and finally to New York City, where he will learn the truth about what happened to his mother and what the future holds for them both.