![]() ![]() When Bird receives a letter - vetted by PACT censors ― containing only dozens of tiny doodles of cats, he realizes that it has come from his mother, and he sets out on a quest to find her, using the fairy tales she used to tell him as clues, and relying on a network of quietly subversive librarians to help him. “Much more civilized, right? Mash them up, recycle them into toilet paper.” We pulp them,” a librarian Bird meets notes sardonically. More: Book review Columbus Zoo the backdrop of a novel that's emotionally and factually engaging ![]() Poet Margaret Miu, Bird's mother, began to be considered suspicious after a phrase from one of her poems - “our missing hearts” - went viral during protests against PACT.Īfter she disappeared, Bird's mild, white father Ethan became the subject of attacks by neighbors, and he and Bird moved into a dormitory at Harvard, where Ethan, formerly a linguistics professor, now shelves books in a library decimated by the removal of books that the government deems suspect. ![]()
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