Little Fires Everywhere

Shaker Heights was meant to be the embodiment of the perfect town, where everything was planned — from the color of the houses to the daily lives of the residents. Yet, no matter how hard we try to stick to the plan, a moment always arrives when something radically changes the course of our lives. Fires ignite here and there, changing us. Sometimes they destroy, but sometimes they give new life and push us to seek a way out. In Shaker Heights, these changes begin with the arrival of the Warrens — a family unlike any other.

Celeste Ng's novel is a profound psychological narrative about complex and hopeful motherhood, and the desire to protect one's children from the cruelty or "otherness" of the surrounding world. It is also a reflection on who we are and who we might become.