📖 peek insideLittle Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
In the placid suburb of Shaker Heights, everything is meticulously planned, from the layout of the roads to the lives of its residents. When enigmatic artist Mia Warren and her daughter Pearl move into a rental house owned by the Richardson family, the two households become inextricably linked. A custody battle over a Chinese-American baby soon divides the town, forcing everyone to take sides. This powerful novel explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art, and the complex bonds of motherhood.
Widely read around the world. Estimated 6 million readers.
Notable Quotes
"Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way."
"Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you."
"To a parent, your child wasn't just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all at the same time. You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she'd been and the child she'd become and the adult she would grow up to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image. It made your head spin. It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again."
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