Book Talk: Little Fires Everywhere

A Novel

Celeste Ng

If you watched the tv series, you have to read the book. The book is always better and this one is no exception.

Shaker Heights is the perfect community of success, the rich, tradition, and rules. The Richardsons are no exception, especially their mother Elena. Then you have the Warrens, the complete opposites. Nomads, artists, different. The Warrens rent a house from the Richardsons and everyone in the family immediately becomes fascinated. Despite their differences, you may even call them friends until Mia Waren crosses boundaries that interfere with friends of Elena. Enemy lines have been drawn. Elena now wants this outsider gone, blaming Mia for every bad thing happening in the Richardson family, and in Shaker Heights.

This book explores the weight of class in society, heavy secrets, motherhood, and the steps each character takes that can unravel it all.

You may say, I’ve seen the show, why read the book? There are details the show never covered. There are topics and ending variations that the show never depicted. The attention to detail, to the characters, to the story, is apparent in every word written on every page. You won’t want to put the book down until you have turned the very last page.

Have you read Little Fires Everywhere? Have you seen the show? What did you think?

Love & light,

Jalesa