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Author celeste ng5/9/2023 Following a period known as “the Crisis” - the worst recession in American history - what remains is a country consumed by fear, a nation looking for someone to blame: “They would settle, in a few years, on China, that perilous, perpetual yellow menace.” For much of Our Missing Hearts, Ng creates this new world order with restraint and ingenuity. Economic instability, recession, civil unrest, a government crackdown, propaganda, violence and bloodshed in the name of law and order. Readers and viewers of the many dystopian-themed books and adaptations in popular culture, or indeed fans of history, will be familiar with the path that leads to such tyranny. In an uncanny, near-future America, citizens live curtailed lives under the legislation of PACT, the Preserving American Culture and Traditions Act, an ostensibly patriotic set of laws used to suppress minorities, particularly those of Asian descent, by removing children from families who step out of line. If the characteristics of dystopian fiction, and the word dystopian itself, comprise an imagined future state where great suffering and injustice prevail, then Celeste Ng’s latest novel nails the brief.
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