![]() ![]() ![]() According to Izzy, she was useless as a conductor and everyone knew to just watch Kerri Schulman, the first-chair. Richardson and Mia Warren overstep their boundaries, Ng explores the complexities of adoption, surrogacy, abortion, privacy, and class, questioning all the while who earns, who claims, and who loses the right to be called a mother. She was a tall, painfully thin woman with hair dyed an unnatural flaxen and cropped in a manner reminiscent of Dorothy Hamill. Meanwhile, Isabelle, the youngest Richardson teenager, starts heading over to see Mia, offering to work as her assistant but really looking for an escape. Penguin Press, 27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2429-2. ![]() Before long, Pearl, enthralled by her first shot at a “normal” life, is spending every day with three of the four Richardson children, Lexie, Moody, and Trip, finding a best friend, a suitor, and a lover in turn. Her work often includes elements of mystery, family drama, and social commentary. ![]() When the eccentric and itinerant artist Mia Warren and her 15-year-old daughter, Pearl, move into a rental house in Shaker Heights, Ohio, one summer, neither they nor their more conventional, affluent landlords, the Richardsons, have any reason to anticipate how dangerously enmeshed the two families will become. Celeste Ng, (born July 30, 1980, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American writer who authored several best-selling novels, including Everything I Never Told You (2014) and Little Fires Everywhere (2017). This novel from Ng ( Everything I Never Told You) is both an intricate and captivating portrait of an eerily perfect suburban town with its dark undertones not-quite-hidden from view and a powerful and suspenseful novel about motherhood. ![]()
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