Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.
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Oooooh, love a quiet engaging book.
Little Fires Everywhere begins with a family and their house burning down, and the daughter who most likely did it missing. Then the book takes us back to the beginning of where all the drama started. In Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, everything is nice and quiet. That is until artist and single-mother Mia Warren moves in with her daughter Pearl. They rent a house from the Richardsons and soon are more than just tenants when the four siblings of the family are drawn to them. When a friend of the Richardsons' attempts to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a dramatic custody battle cuts into their careful community. With Mia and Mrs. Richardson on different sides of it, she is suspicious and dives into Mia's mysterious past.
This book was so good, in such a different way for me. It goes deep into all the lives of these characters and I enjoyed it so much. It's pretty slow and you have to work for it, but the payoff felt satisfying. You really go into the lives of this small town and into the little fires that happen every day (heh).
There were a couple of characters I didn't like that much but then it was time for their backstory and I just strapped in for the long haul. At one part, it goes into one story and it was so heartbreaking while also explaining everything. There were so many characters and so many stories going on and I thought they were all so well done and woven together. Plus honestly it was just so entertaining to go into their lives into this drama. And boy was this drama spicy. That custody battle was a mess.
I think you really have to be in the mood for this kind of story but I'm glad I was.
