Yes, Noah Gardner, whose mother called him Bird, will leave home, endure trials and perform feats, just like any classical hero. The simplest way to put it without spoiling anything is to say that at the core of Ng’s narrative - a 12-year-old boy’s epic quest to find his missing mother - is the all-important question of how we communicate. When you finish Celeste Ng’s stunning new dystopian novel, “ Our Missing Hearts,” you’ll understand why this sculpture comes to mind. However, instead of leaves, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s tree has tiny speakers drooping from each branch that play 360 different spoken languages, creating a deliberate Tower of Babel, a cacophony of voices that immerses visitors in our shared human need for expression. Genki Kawamura’s timeless tale is a moving story of loss and reconciliation, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters most in life.If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.Īt the entrance to the Planet Word museum in Washington, D.C., stands a remarkable sculpture designed to resemble a weeping willow.
With each object that disappears, the postman reflects on the life he’s lived, his joys and regrets, and the people he’s loved and lost. But before he can tackle his bucket list, the Devil appears to make him an offer: In exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, our narrator will get one extra day of life.
Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat, Cabbage, to keep him company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. The international phenomenon that has sold more than a million copies in Japan, If Cats Disappeared from the World is a funny, heartwarming, and profound meditation on the meaning of life. "Brian Nishii narrates this imaginative tale set in Japan about the complexities of death, life, and cats.A brief, charming parable." -AudioFile Magazine
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