![]() ![]() Ng’s work reveals how perceptions and positionality that fail to consider other ways of seeing and living limit the relationships we are able to build. The novel follows the complex social, class, and legal relationships between all of these individuals as we realize how much they judge one another, feeling certain in their own stance. ![]() The Warrens’ relationships with the different members of the local Richardson family, both the parents and their four children, form much of the focus of the book, but so too does a transracial adoption of a Chinese American baby by another white family in the area, the McCulloughs. In this latest tale about a new family who shakes things up in a quiet suburban town, we meet Mia Warren and her daughter Pearl-a transient artist mother and teenage daughter-who arrive in the affluent planned community of Shaker Heights, Ohio. With her second novel Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng is garnering the kind of praise that greeted her highly awarded and New York Times best-selling debut novel Everything I Never Told You. ![]()
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