is under PACT, the Preserving American Culture and Traditions Act. In the book, Bird, who’s Chinese American, lives with his white father in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during a time when the U.S. … Your investment immediately in the future becomes very tangible.” “For many people, you only start thinking about the future when you start being involved in raising a child or you have some stake in the future. 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 librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.“The way that you raise your children and the act of having children and trying to raise them into members of society feels very political to me,” Ng said. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her.
To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic–including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.īird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder.
Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far.įor a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library.
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