Celeste Ng, “Little Fires Everywhere“ (w/ Nicole Chung)

Ng’s eagerly awaited follow-up to the award-winning Everything I Never Told You is set squarely in the heartland of the American dream. Shaker Heights is a progressive suburban community, seemingly zoned for neighborliness and order. Then Mia, a single mother, moves in with her teenage daughter, Pearl. An anomaly among the conventional nuclear families, the two threaten the assumptions Shaker Heights is built on. Ng is in conversation with Nicole Chung, man