5/30/2023 0 Comments Little fires book![]() ![]() Bebe’s predicament as an undocumented immigrant who gave up her child out of desperation sharpens the contrasts between Elena and Mia until their collective secrets set their lives ablaze. The two women might become friends-or at least planets in the same orbit-until Mia meets Bebe Chow. Elena, an overachieving mother of four high schoolers, considers renting to Mia an act of charity. Mia has raised Pearl mostly from the backseat of her car, but decides to settle in the suburb to work on her next project. It's the summer of 1997, and Mia, with her daughter Pearl in tow, has just arrived in picturesque Shaker Heights, where the duplexes conceal their secondary front doors to avoid damaging curb appeal. ![]() Little Fires follows two polar-opposite mothers, Elena Richardson (Witherspoon, in her element as a wealthy type-A blonde) and Mia Warren (Washington, using her ferocity à la Olivia Pope to breathe complexity into a starving artist). ![]()
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