This book will be released in September, so don't be shocked that you haven't heard of it yet. But when it is released, I hope it is to decent praise. Ng's first novel "Everything I Never Told You" was very good and this one is better.
Families, teenagers, angst, cruel intentions, misplaced kindness, unraveled lies, and the inability to right the past wrongs of a life. It's all here and it is done so well. I cried at the end, not because of sadness but because of the beauty of the written words that gave truth to this fiction story, that explained and illustrated the longing and hunger of emotion. And its fulfillment in action and in acceptance.
If you see this novel in the library, or on a sale table, or at the Salvation Army Bookstore, pick it up. It's a book that you will enjoy and even more than that, it's a book that you will enjoy giving to someone, a friend who likes books, who likes good stories and well-defined prose.
"Little Fires Everywhere" is such a great title, but impossible to explain. Suffice it to say that our lives are riddled with small blazes all the time. Scorched at times, we are forced to sweep away the ashes and begin again.
I love reading. This book is one of the reasons. It's not great, but it is so good that greatness doesn't matter. Now and then a book simply moves the reader, and it might not move anyone else. It moved me. It will move one of you.
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Thanks for the recommendation. Added it to my library request list (on order, #19 on the list). Reading 'A Book of American Martyrs' by Joyce Carol Oates. A well written disturbing book about abortion (from both sides) and family dynamics.
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