CarolineFromConcord’s review of Our Missing Hearts > Likes and Comments
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We read this for my book group. I agree with your last paragraph: I think there are more people fighting tyranny than we see in this book. I also found the focus on stealing away the children of dissidents to be oddly over focused on: it felt like the main vector of the oppression, whereas really--at least as explained in the book--it was a punitive measure for not agreeing with the new, authoritarian measures... but we don't see so many of those (some of them, but not a lot). Also, pretty as it was, I felt the mother's art-based resistance to be a little ... small. But I did like the characters!
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Oct 25, 2026 09:25AM
We read this for my book group. I agree with your last paragraph: I think there are more people fighting tyranny than we see in this book. I also found the focus on stealing away the children of dissidents to be oddly over focused on: it felt like the main vector of the oppression, whereas really--at least as explained in the book--it was a punitive measure for not agreeing with the new, authoritarian measures... but we don't see so many of those (some of them, but not a lot). Also, pretty as it was, I felt the mother's art-based resistance to be a little ... small. But I did like the characters!
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