technicat reviewed Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
OK, it's depressing because this stuff is happening, but timely and beautifully written
5 stars
I recently watched the show Dark Matter, where some alternate universes are just a hair's divergence from ours, and this racist, hyper-patriotic, child-separating, book-banning reality with Handmaid's Tale and Fahrenheight 451 vibes almost looks like yesterday's news (and as the author points out in the afterword, historically it is). Despite the story being a heartfelt cry of rage, the tone is measured, beautifully written with some nice turns of phrase and some passages that just flow, almost compelling us to persevere.