Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng FIC Ng

In a suburb of Cleveland called Shaker Heights lives Elena and Bill Richardson with their four teenagers.  They are pillars of the community and their lives seem to be perfect.  When the novel begins their house is burning.  The firemen say it was definitely arson because there were “little fires everywhere”.  Their daughter Izzy has disappeared.

Things for the Richardsons began to change 11 months before when Mia Warren and her daughter Pearl moved to town.  Mia is a free spirit to say the least.  She and Pearl are always moving from place to place.  Mia will take any job that she can find to support them while she does photography, which is her passion.   They rent an apartment from the Richardson's and Pearl goes to school with the Richardson kids. For the first time Pearl actually has friends that she cares about and doesn’t want to disrupt her life again - and Mia promises that they will stay.

But Mia has a lot of secrets in her past and when Elena (at the request of one of her daughters) begins to research Mia’s past, things will become uncomfortable.  I thought it was a great book!

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