Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng, Little, Brown
hen 12-year-old Bird receives a surprise letter, he knows it’s from his mother even without opening it. He hasn’t been called Bird since his mum left. It was the name she said he gave himself when he was tiny, the only name he would answer to because “it felt like him”. Now Bird must answer to Noah, his birth name, and forget about his mother. He feels as if he’s wearing “a rubbery Halloween mask”,
