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Painted as the enemy

OUR MISSING HEARTS, by Celeste Ng (Abacus, $38)

n this chilling piece of speculative fiction set a few years from now, we see a frightening authoritarian United States through the eyes of 12-year-old Bird Gardner. The son of an American father and Chinese-American poet mother, he and his father

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