Downtown Book Club: Our Missing Hearts
Schedule
Thu, 08 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
The Creamery Arts Center | Springfield, MO
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Join the Downtown Book Club every second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. in the Creamery Arts Center Arts Library. January’s read is "Our Missing Hearts" by Celeste Ng.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: 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.
“Our Missing Hearts” is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s about the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children and the power of art to create change.
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The Creamery Arts Center, 411 N Sherman Pkwy,Springfield, Missouri, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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