Little Fires Everywhere

Little Fires Everywhere (Celeste Ng, 2017)   

How I stumbled upon it: Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club!

What it's about: Mia is a single mother to daughter Pearl and have recently moved into a small midwestern town. They’ve never stayed in one place and instead have preferred to move around wherever the wind takes them (which is normally against the status-quo). Mia rents a home from the Richardsons, who Pearl grows to love and accept as a second family.  When the Richardsons friends adopt a baby from a local woman who changes her mind, a custody battle divides the entire town and secrets from Mia’s begin to unravel. The relationship between mothers + daughters shines in this one.

What I thought: It is not a fast “beach read,” but the story does pick up the further along you get into the plotline. By the end I was dying to know what had happened to Mia that made her such a quirky + unconventional mother. I was really glad that I read this and am excited to go back and read Ng’s first novel, as well as check out the HBO show in production now!

You can get it here.