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SUMMARY:Other:Celeste Ng with Douglas Trevor
DESCRIPTION:Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, and Shaker Heights\, Ohio\, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan)\, where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story\, TriQuarterly\, Bellevue Literary Review\, the Kenyon Review Online\, and elsewhere\, and she is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, with her husband and son.\n\nCeleste will be in conversation with Douglas Trevor\, Director of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan\n\nAbout Little Fires Everywhere:\nIn Shaker Heights\, a placid\, progressive suburb of Cleveland\, everything is meticulously planned—from the layout of the winding roads\, to the colors of the houses\, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson\, whose guiding principal is playing by the rules.\n\nEnter Mia Warren- an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl\, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the alluring mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past\, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.\n\nWhen the Richardsons’ friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby\, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town and puts Mia and Mrs. Richardson on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives\, Mrs. Richardson becomes determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs to her own family—and Mia’s.\n\nLittle Fires Everywhere explores the weight of long-held secrets and the ferocious pull of motherhood—and the danger of believing that planning and following the rules can avert disaster\, or heartbreak.
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Books,Literature,Storytelling,Writing
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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