Our Missing Hearts

THE REESE WITHERSPOON OCTOBER BOOK CLUB PICK

''Governments are right to fear words. They can change hearts and topple tyrannies....It''s impossible not to be moved by Margaret Miu''s courage, or to applaud her craftiness...And Bird is a brave and believable character, who gives us a relatable portal into a world that seems more like our own every day'' Stephen King, New York Times

''As lyrical as it is chilling, as astonishing as it is empathic, Our Missing Hearts arguably achieves literary perfection'' Booklist (starred review)

From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear.

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard''s library. He knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a