Cuesta Library Virtual Book Club: Words of Change: July 2020: Little Fires Everywhere

• Celeste Ng Book Groups
• Lit Lovers
• Pen and Podium

• Short history of The Shakers
• Shaker Heights, Ohio, site
• Development of Shaker Heights Subdivision

• Mothers—their relationships with their children, the choices they make to balance motherhood with the rest of their lives
• Racial and socio-economic factors in American life, c.1990s (setting of book)
• The burden of secrets
• The search for identity; loneliness; and/or not fitting in
• Complications that come with living in a carefully planned suburban community
• The philosophy of The Shakers (religious group w/many “utopian” villages in the Eastern U.S.)

• Interview with Celeste Ng, her youth, background (6 min video)
• Author bio (by Celeste Ng)
• Publisher's introduction to the book (2 min video) 

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• Interview with Ng: "It’s a novel about race, and class and privilege."

• "How Hulu's 'Little Fires Everywhere' Tries to Get Race Right."

• Kirkus Reviews
• Kenyon Review
• Publishers Weekly
• NYTimes
• Atlantic