Author Celeste Ng discusses bringing her novel LittleFiresEverywhere to screen and what she hopes viewers take away from the story
The novel opens with the home of Elena and Bill Richardson being burned to the ground, with the circumstances of the fire's origin not completely known. Soon readers are introduced to the elite Richardson family who connect with artist Mia Warren and her daughter Pearl after Mia rents a property owned by the Richardsons, and is employed by them to cook and clean.
. "We thought we were post-racial. Although, in retrospect, I'm not totally sure why. We thought it was a 'girl power' time and we never had a female secretary or a female military general. We had this sense that the world was kind of figured out... And of course this is pre 9/11, as we very quickly saw how all these things that we thought were going fine, actually there were all these problems simmering under the surface.
Though at large the story can seemingly center on the mystery of Mia's past and the custody battle, it is the unraveling of the Shaker Heights community that not only impacts the once picture-perfect residents but presents the idea that sometimes disruption is needed for change — something, Ng says, could resonate with the current climate.
Both Reese and Kerry are such readers, which means they bring a genuine appreciation for the novel to the adaptation —and I’m so grateful for that. Even as the series will have some changes from the book — it’s a different form, after all! —they’ve been so respectful of the work and of me, and I think that’s because they were readers first. Reese suggested casting Kerry early on, and I loved the idea.
In the novel, I didn't want the reader to come away thinking, 'Oh this is the hero and this is the villain.' I wanted them to see that actually it's very complicated and that the person that they maybe were first sympathetic to has another side to them and other things that maybe they question. At first they thought, they could think, 'I totally don't understand why she would do that.' They don't like her and don't agree with her.
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