Celeste Ng on "Little Fires Everywhere" at the 2018 National Book Festival
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Celeste Ng discusses Little Fires Everywhere at the 2018 National Book Festival.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours 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 teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the alluring mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.
When the Richardsons' friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle 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 own family - and Mia's.
Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of long-held secrets and the ferocious pull of motherhood-and the danger of believing that planning and following the rules can avert disaster, or heartbreak.
Women authors, fiction, single mothers, motherhood, domestic fiction, adoption, family secrets, TAYSHAS Award, Library Reads, Amazon.com Best Books, Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine, Goodreads Choice Awards - Розваги
LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE BROKE ME
Great interview. POC folks we gotta realize humans listen to respond and react not to understand. Not all but most.
Ah. Men often feel they are being attentive and nice helping women. Arrgh. I think i will choose C. Eng's book for my book group next👍
Great interview! I thoroughly enjoyed reading Celeste Ng's "Everything I Never Told You" and "Little Fires Everywhere". I loved what Celeste said about having empathy.
Brilliant writer!! Smart, beautiful and wise! I couldn't put down the book (Little Fires Everywhere) Great interview!
Who are these "white male writers" that are unsophisticated and need to learn from Celeste, another beautiful white rich Harvard girl, whose face is the dominant one of the world (female, Asian features)? Does she mean Dan Brown? I'm assuming she does. I guess she means -- the marketplace values escapism over sociology, but Dan Brown should "choose sociology" so that more people's feelings aren't hurt in Ohio? What gives her the right to dictate what everybody else should be writing and reading?
First, I doubt you, Miranda, are female, but hey, I'm not genki either. Secondly, having read her work, which you clearly have not, I can say she has as good a view of the 'burbs and its citizens, as, oh, take your pick, Updike or Mailer or my man Roth. Whoops, they are all dead.