His journey really takes him back to the many folk tales she put into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of the librarians, into the lives of the kidnapped children, and finally to the city of New York. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he sets out to find it. who left the family when he was just 9 years old.īird grew up disowning her mother and her poetry He doesn’t know what his job is or what happened to him, and he knows he shouldn’t be surprised. To keep the peace and also restore prosperity, authorities are now really allowed to relocate the children of the dissidents, particularly those of the Asian descent, and libraries have been forced to remove the books deemed unpatriotic, including works by the Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese- American poet. For nearly a decade, their lives have been governed by the laws written to preserve the “American culture” after years of the economic instability and the violence. Bird knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, or distract himself too much.
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with her loving but broken father, a former linguist who now keeps books in a college library.
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