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Indlæser... Little Fires Everywhere (2017)af Celeste Ng
  
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From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives "I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting. With brilliance and beauty, Celeste Ng dissects a microcosm of American society just when we need to see it beneath the microscope ..."--Jodi Picoult, New York Times -bestselling author of Small Great Things and Leaving Time In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs. Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood - and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster. No library descriptions found. |
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That being said - the book was easy to get into and despite being a respectable 400 pages or so, I read it in a weekend. So engaging easy read, but fairly predictable and syrupy. It seems a made-for-TV movie and in fact - the cover of my copy of the book suggests that it is just that. I don't know - there were some good themes in there re: meaning of motherhood; an idea of imperfect lives still being meaningful and, in fact, sublime - the author I suspect is better and smarter than she writes. I get a feeling she is holding back so that her novels will be palatable to the masses and thus, commercial successes.
In the main - like a bowl of popcorn or Chinese food (which figures ironically in the book) greedily consumed and quickly digested and dismissed with a bit of guilt. I doubt I will go out of my way to watch the TV adaptation. (