Cambridge-based pronounced_ing's latest novel explores the aftermath of a fictionalized dark period called The Crisis, in which American equilibrium is enforced by a sweeping law intent on preserving “American Culture.”
More than ever, the challenge today in writing dystopian fiction is that in the lag between when the manuscript is submitted and the book is published, chances are disturbingly good that the reality will have surpassed anything the author imagined.
When showing us the world through Bird’s eyes, Ng’s language is subdued, reflecting the boy’s flattened affect and limited understanding. The constraints and monotony of his present — going to school and coming straight home, keeping his head down — are relieved only when Bird allows himself to revisit his former home and long-suppressed feelings, when “memories hover close before alighting on his shoulder like dragonflies.
She never, in her memory, heard her parents say a word in Cantonese. Only later would she realize what she’d missed.”
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