Little Fires Everywhere

from sbenne3

A good read. While it took a bit to get started for me, I appreciated how it all came together. It was set in the late 90s and was a very good portrait of the mid-west during that time. I thought the author did a good job allowing you to understand and sympathize with characters on both sides of ...

from pgchuis

Mia and her daughter Pearl move into the Richardsons' rental apartment and the interactions between the two families result in the Richardsons' own house being burnt down. (This is not a spoiler - that's how it opens and then the rest leads back up to it). For the first third of the novel, I was ...

from Aristocats

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng is a beautifully written and thought-provoking novel that explores the themes of motherhood, race, class, and the American dream. The story follows two families who come together in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a seemingly perfect town where everyone is white, wealt...

from linda.a.

This is a story about families, and what a “good” family should look like. It looks at the bonds of motherhood, with questions raised about what makes a mother, biology or love; the power of money and of privilege, as well as the abuse of these assets; it is about the smug complacency of an afflu...

from Okies

This is a rating for the mini series, which I saw in July 2020. I haven't read the book. TV series led me to read Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You.