The book, Little Fires Everywhere, takes place in Shaker Ohio (the authors home town). The opening scene is in front of the Richardson’s home where the fire department is putting out several fires, hints the name of the book. The fire chief has found several spots in the home where the fire was intentionally set. One of the Richardson children is missing and some suspect she is to blame. The book centers around 2 families who are polar opposites and have a chance encounter. They build several unexpected friendships along the way. Will someone take things too far and destroy the perfect friendships of all parties involved? This gripping page turner of a best-selling novel will have you contemplating right and wrong. Whose side will you choose?
Celeste Ng did a fabulous job building each characters personality and depth. Just when you thought you knew a character, she brings out a whole new side to the person. This book really opens your mind to the psychological stability and loyality of a group of people.
Little Fires Everywhere made it to the top of GoodReads charts in 2017 and still remains to be one of the most sought after books. If you are planning on borrowing this book from your local library, prepare yourself for a long wait period. I placed this book on hold in May and only just got it in the beginning of October. This is one those books that I would not judge you for buying brand new off the shelf without ever reading it prior.
“I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting. With brilliance and beauty, Celeste Ng dissects a microcosm of American society just when we need to see it beneath the microscope: how do questions of race stack up against the comfort of privilege, and what role does that play in parenting? Is motherhood a bond forged by blood, or by love? And perhaps most importantly: do the faults of our past determine what we deserve in the future? Be ready to be wowed by Ng’s writing — and unsettled by the mirror held up to one’s own beliefs.” – Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and Leaving Time
“Witty, wise, and tender. It’s a marvel.” -Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water
“Witnessing these two families as they commingle and clash is an utterly engrossing, often heartbreaking, deeply empathetic experience…It’s this vast and complex network of moral affiliations—and the nuanced omniscient voice that Ng employs to navigate it—that make this novel even more ambitious and accomplished than her debut…Our trusty narrator is as powerful and persuasive and delightfully clever as the narrator in a Victorian novel…It is a thrillingly democratic use of omniscience, and, for a novel about class, race, family and the dangers of the status quo, brilliantly apt…The magic of this novel lies in its power to implicate all of its characters—and likely many of its readers—in that innocent delusion [of a post-racial America]. Who set the littles fires everywhere? We keep reading to find out, even as we suspect that it could be us with ash on our hands.” —Eleanor Henderson, The New York Times Book Review
“[Ng] captures her setting with an ethnologist’s authority…And there are time-capsule pleasures in her evocation of 1997…The writing is poised.” —Wall Street Journal
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Learn more about the Author here ⇒ Celeste Ng
GoodReads 2017 charts ⇒ Goodreads choice awards 2017
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