After reading Everything I Never Told You a couple of years ago, and watching the Amazon Prime version of this book, I knew I wanted to finally delve in and read this. Despite having watched the show, I felt like the book version was significantly different enough to make it worth doing both, and it was interesting to see what was changed to make it onto the small screen. I also enjoyed this more than Everything I Never Told You, which I wasn't expecting.
Little Fires Everywhere is about the suburban Richardson family who are living the American Dream with their four kids, big house and jobs they enjoy. When Mrs Richardson lets out the other house they own to single mum Mia Warren and her daughter Pearl at a reduced rate, she has no idea what disruption they'll cause to her idyllic life. The book starts with the Richardson house going up in flames, and from there we go back in time to see what happened in the lead up to this disaster.
I really enjoyed this book. It touches on important themes including interracial adoption (particularly Chinese adoption in the US), abortion, surrogacy and loss. These were all discussed in sensitive ways, and because of the divide between the Warrens and the Richardsons, the reader is shown arguments on both sides of these topics.
I'm really glad I read this and gave it 4 stars.
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