Little Fires Everywhere

Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.

Recommended Texts for Pairing

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

• Celeste Ng’s first novel; focuses on a Chinese-American family during the 1970s in Ohio
• also addresses themes of Motherhood and race

Little Fires Everywhere (TV Series)

• TV series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington
• adaptation of the novel that touches on themes of The Ramifications of White Liberalism, The Right to Motherhood, and The Power of Art as Social Intervention

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• novel about a woman who hires an African American college student to nanny for her child
• shares the theme of The Ramifications of White Liberalism

The Legacy of Redlining

• a podcast episode from the NPR show In the Thick of It that touches on The Ramifications of White Liberalism
• touches on the history and the legacy of redlining in the United States

The Leavers by Lisa Ko

• novel about a Chinese boy whose mother, an immigrant, mysteriously disappears, leaving him to be raised by a white family
• connects with the struggle Bebe wages to get her daughter back