Page Turners: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

September finds Page Turners returning to their monthly meetings for significant, in-depth discussions of the books they voted to read in the upcoming months from September through June.
The September selection is Harvard-educated Celeste Ng’s second award-winning novel, Little Fires Everywhere. To paraphrase the Princeton Book Review, this is a compelling story that takes an in-depth (there’s that word again!) look at family relationships, especially between a mother and her children. In addition, it examines parenthood, class, race and inter-racial adoption. The book “takes unerring aim at upper-middle-class America’s blind spots . . .” Interestingly, the author grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio—the scene of the novel. She writes, “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 . . .” The book should provoke an interesting discussion when the Monday and Thursday afternoon groups meet September 24 and 27 respectively.
For information on the Thursday group contact Steve and Ann Morris at samwrsi@cox.net and for the Monday afternoon group, Frances at fozimec@cox.net.
—Frances Ozimec