A complex and compulsively readable suburban saga that is deeply invested in mothers and daughters. The writing is poised.” - Wall Street Journal “Delectable and engrossing. And there are time-capsule pleasures in her evocation of 1997. Who set the littles fires everywhere? We keep reading to find out, even as we suspect that it could be us with ash on our hands.” - Eleanor Henderson, The New York Times Book Review “ captures her setting with an ethnologist’s authority. The magic of this novel lies in its power to implicate all of its characters-and likely many of its readers-in that innocent delusion. It is a thrillingly democratic use of omniscience, and, for a novel about class, race, family and the dangers of the status quo, brilliantly apt.

Our trusty narrator is as powerful and persuasive and delightfully clever as the narrator in a Victorian novel. It’s this vast and complex network of moral affiliations-and the nuanced omniscient voice that Ng employs to navigate it-that make this novel even more ambitious and accomplished than her debut. It's a marvel.” -Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water “Witnessing these two families as they commingle and clash is an utterly engrossing, often heartbreaking, deeply empathetic experience. With brilliance and beauty, Celeste Ng dissects a microcosm of American society just when we need to see it beneath the microscope: how do questions of race stack up against the comfort of privilege, and what role does that play in parenting? Is motherhood a bond forged by blood, or by love? And perhaps most importantly: do the faults of our past determine what we deserve in the future? Be ready to be wowed by Ng's writing-and unsettled by the mirror held up to one's own beliefs.' - Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and Leaving Time “Witty, wise, and tender.

'I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting.

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