L ittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
\nSummary: Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle\, the last of the Richardson children\, had finally gone around the bend and burned t he house down.
\nIn Shaker Heights\, a placid\, progressive suburb o f 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 E lena Richardson\, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.
\nEnter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl\, and rents a house fr om the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia ca rries with her a mysterious past\, and a disregard for the rules that thre atens to upend this carefully ordered community.
\nWhen old family f riends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby\, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing si des. Suspicious of Mia and her motives\, Elena is determined to uncover th e secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost . . .
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