Little Fires Everywhere
Novel by Celeste Ng

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone round the bend and burned the house down.

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the homes , to the successful lives its residents will still steer . and no-one embodies this spirit quite Elena Richardson, whose guideline is playing by the principles .

Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives during this idyllic bubble in conjunction with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become quite just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the alluring mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries in conjunction with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the principles that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.

When the Richardsons' friends plan to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a litigation erupts that dramatically divides the town and puts Mia and Mrs. Richardson on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Mrs. Richardson becomes determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs to her circle of relatives – and Mia's.

Little Fires Everywhereexplores the load of long-held secrets and thus the ferocious pull of motherhood-and the danger of believing that planning and following the principles can avert disaster, or heartbreak.