"I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting. 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. 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¡¦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¡¦Our trusty narrator is as powerful and persuasive and delightfully clever as the narrator in a Victorian novel¡¦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¡¦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 [of a post-racial America]. 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
¡°[Ng] captures her setting with an ethnologist¡¯s authority¡¦And there are time-capsule pleasures in her evocation of 1997¡¦The writing is poised.¡± -Wall Street Journal
¡°Delectable and engrossing¡¦A complex and compulsively readable suburban saga that is deeply invested in mothers and daughters¡¦What Ng has written, in this thoroughly entertaining novel, is a pointed and persuasive social critique, teasing out the myriad forms of privilege and predation that stand between so many people and their achievement of the American dream. But there is a heartening optimism, too. This is a book that believes in the transformative powers of art and genuine kindness - and in the promise of new growth, even after devastation, even after everything has turned to ash.¡± -Boston Globe