Celeste Ng

"Traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives"--

Little Fires Everywhere

betty books

Anna

Remember, Mia had said: 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. 

and she rented only to people she felt were deserving but who had, for one reason or another, not quite gotten a fair shot in life. 

—she appreciated his thoughtfulness anyway. Mr. Yang was exactly the kind of tenant Mrs. Richardson wanted: a kind person to whom she could do a kind turn, and who would appreciate her kindness.

“A community is known by the schools it keeps.”

So it would feel to him that he had always known her name, that somehow, he and Pearl had known each other always.

and to his delight he found in Pearl another poetic soul.

They were so artlessly beautiful, even right out of bed.

“Lexie’s got a good brain. She just doesn’t always use it in real life.”

"Being allowed to do something and knowing how to do it are not the same thing."

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