Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

⭐ 9.0/10

(Originally written by Beans)

I kind of picked this book up without knowing anything about it except Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington star in the tv mini series adaptation.

The book is about two families: one of them is an upper class, Caucasian, well to do family that lives in suburbia and plays life by the rules. The second is a single mother with her one child, they’re Black, and live their life wherever the wind takes them. The single mother and her daughter end up renting a house from the white family and their lives are forever altered as they become entwined.

This book was incredibly complex in it’s characters. The author did an awesome job with portraying the layers and nuance that are in every person. She also did a fantastic bit of juxtaposing the lives of both families in a way that made you relate to both worlds.

As the story progresses you can see and feel the tension build up to this incredible conclusion that leaves your head spinning. A lot of surprises sprinkled throughout which kept me turning the pages to find out what happened. Expect my review of the tv show in a few weeks!