书籍 Little Fires Everywhere的封面

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

出版社

Penguin Press

出版时间

2017-09-12

ISBN

9780735224292

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is 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 principle is playing by the rules. Enter 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 mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
用户评论
really great story. fate send you to some random people, and you changed their lives, better or worse.
比《Everthing I Never Told You》要好。Mia 和 Pearl, Bebe 和 May Ling 真的是殊途同归了。喜欢Mia和Izzy这条线。
有声书很快就听完了,更喜欢她的上一本书。这个故事非常吸引人,跟开篇预期不同,但整个设定都挺有意思的。可我怎么都觉得很别扭,太不认同这里面的人物了,一个个都自私又不负责任到让我听得生气。为什么这么多人非要费尽心机想要小孩?虽然在60年底的经济学文章里就读到生育权的讨论而且现实生活很难限制生育权,可我觉得还是能让人通过一些test才能生小孩多好。
6.5分,对于美国的中产生活描写的无聊和暗流涌动描写地非常到位,但总感觉前面的铺垫实在是太长了,恨不得故事到了将近一半的时候开始,而所有的故事又在最后三章里草草结束了。很多描写也是为了描写而描写,但反而重要的问题并没有讨论清楚:比如,跨种族收养到底意味着什么?而代孕到底意味着什么?作者抛出了这些问题,但却蜻蜓点水地飞走了。
"Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed; if you don’t, you might burn the world to the ground."
不及第一部,前三分之一有点boring
前天晚上熬到凌晨四五点读了一半,今天回家之后读完了!
i enjoyed the first half the story but the second half turned out to be a huge disappointment.
平原火的概念被引入时依旧误认为是广度的燃烧,其实是Burned to the ground抹去重来。所有的background story都有holding back的小家子气,但是正发生的冲突却颇具魅力。Celeste给我一种想要讲述所有问题的贪心感,处理得可以说是相当不体面。错与对的争辩没有意义,重要的是我与谁同在,我们要怎样沿着对方的过去来找自己的未来。
audio book A revoting book,forcing readers to accept the author's point of view rather than giving them space to think things over.
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