The series is also executive produced by Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Lauren Levy Neustadter, Pilar Savone and Lynn Shelton. Liz Tigelaar (“Life Unexpected,” “Casual”) will serve as creator, showrunner and executive producer. The series is produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street and ABC Signature Studios, a part of Disney Television Studios. The cast includes Reese Witherspoon (Elena Richardson), Kerry Washington (Mia Warren), Joshua Jackson (Bill Richardson), Rosemarie DeWitt (Linda McCullough), Jade Pettyjohn (Lexie Richardson), Jordan Elsass (Trip Richardson), Gavin Lewis (Moody Richardson), Megan Stott (Izzy Richardson), Lexi Underwood (Pearl Warren), and Huang Lu (Bebe). It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets, misunderstandings, and miscommunication, and how easily problems could be avoided if people would just say what they thought, or speak up rather than let a person roll. The story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster. Little Fires Everywhere is a powerful meditation on motherhood and the sometimes-tenuous bond between mother and child. '.but I didn't feel like I was the right person to try to bring a black woman's experience to the page.Based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller, Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.

The 1 New York Times bestseller Witty, wise, and tender. Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and. 'Initially, I had wanted to write as people of color,' Ng, who's Asian-American, told The Altantic. Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire BurningTo say I love this book is. Little Fires Everywhere is a book that makes deep and difficult inquiries into what, exactly, makes up a person’s identity. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng: 9780735224315 : Books The 1 New York Times bestseller Witty, wise, and tender. There's a reason that Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington wanted to tackle the tale of Elena, a wealthy mother of four, and Mia, a single mother always on the move, both as executive producers and stars: the novel by Celeste Ng spent 48 weeks on the New York Times' hardcover-fiction best-seller list, thanks to its complex characters and nuanced take on race, socioeconomics, motherhood and more delicate topics.īut that doesn't mean the Hulu adaptation-which is up for three awards at the 2020 Emmys on Sunday, including Best Limited Series-followed every beat of the book, with Little Fires Everywhere undergoing some pretty major tweaks for the small screen, including one major one even before the series began: making it clear Mia is black, with the novel never specifying the Warren women's race.

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