Description
Little Fires Everywhere is a contemporary literary fiction novel by Celeste Ng, set in the carefully planned suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, in the 1990s. Elena Richardson has built her life around order, rules and doing things the right way, but that stability is disrupted when enigmatic artist and single mother Mia Warren rents a house from the Richardson family. As Mia and her daughter Pearl become increasingly entangled with the Richardson children, tensions rise and a bitter custody dispute over a Chinese-American baby divides the community, bringing questions of motherhood, privilege, race, family and belonging to the surface.
First published in 2017, the novel explores the gap between the lives people present to the world and the secrets and compromises hidden beneath them. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and won the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction, as well as the Ohioana Award; it was also named a best book of the year by more than 25 publications. The novel was later adapted into a limited television series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.
A thoughtful choice for readers who enjoy literary fiction, complex family dramas and emotionally charged stories that explore race, class, motherhood and the tensions beneath seemingly perfect communities.
