Little Fires Everywhere a Novel

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By Celeste Ng

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned: the layout of the winding roads, the colours of the houses, the successful lives the residents will go on to lead. Nobody embodies that spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.

Then Mia Warren, an enigmatic artist and single mother, arrives with her teenage daughter Pearl and rents a house from the Richardsons. All four Richardson children are drawn to them, and Mia has a past and a disregard for the status quo that the neighbourhood cannot absorb. When old friends of the Richardsons try to adopt a Chinese-American baby, the custody battle splits the town and puts Mia and Elena on opposite sides.

First published 2017