Little Fires Everywhere

Paperback, 388 pages

English language

Published Aug. 24, 2017 by Abacus.

ISBN:
978-0-349-14292-0
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
1198759351

View on OpenLibrary

No rating (1 review)

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.

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

When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and …

16 editions

Burning questions about motherhood

No rating

Exquisitely crafted tale that starts as dozens of smoldering embers that find enough oxygen to become a full on conflagration that burn to the nearly infinite possibilities of motherhood into the reader’s heart. I loved almost everything about this book, except Mrs Richardson, whose almost villainous role felt at time overly moralistic and flat. Highly recommend!

Subjects

  • Fiction, family life
  • Mothers and daughters, fiction
  • Cleveland (ohio), fiction
  • Fiction, cultural heritage
  • Friendship, fiction