Celeste Ng, "Little Fires Everywhere" (w/ Nicole Chung)

Ng’s eagerly awaited follow-up to the award-winning Everything I Never Told You is set squarely in the heartland of the American dream. Shaker Heights is a progressive suburban community, seemingly zoned for neighborliness and order. Then Mia, a single mother, moves in with her teenage daughter, Pearl. An anomaly among the conventional nuclear families, the two threaten the assumptions Shaker Heights is built on.
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Ng is in conversation with Nicole Chung, managing web editor of Catapult and former managing editor of The Toast.
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Produced by Tom Warren

[@daveblood00]

I grew up in Shaker in the 80's. Most of my friends were from single mom families.

[@pennym6576]

Such a brilliant writer! If you haven't read her first novel, Everything I Never Told You, please go and read!

[@cminmd0041]

I am binging all the videos about Little Fires Everywhere because I just finished it and it is such a GEM! I can't get enough and want to learn as much as I can about her choices because it is so amazing.
Minneapolis was much smarter about the trash issue! They build an alley between the backs of the houses in the city so if you have a garage it is in the back of your property and you drive down the alley to it. No huge unsightly garage doors facing the streets and the garbage is left along the alley and the trucks go down and easily collect it barely having to go more than one step to reach the cans.

[@lindaaustin3205]

Wonderful book. Perhaps the best exploration of what it is to be a mother I have ever read.

[@kevin1049]

book sucked in my opinion