[This story contains spoilers forLittle Fires Everywhere.] Celeste Ng's 2017 bestselling novel Little Fires Everywherebegins with a spark of flames — literally.
The novel opens with the home of Elena and Bill Richardson being burned to the ground, with the circumstances of the fire's origin not completely known.
Soon readers are introduced to the elite Richardson family who connect with artist Mia Warren and her daughter Pearl after Mia rents a property owned by the Richardsons, and is employed by them to cook and clean.
But tensions rise between the two families when Shaker Heights is divided by a custody battle over an Asian-American baby girl, May Ling Chow, between her Chinese immigrant mother and the wealthy white couple hoping to.
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