Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Hostess: Janna
Attendees: Michelle, Pam T, Cheryl, Amy, Lori, Pam M
We started out giving this novel high marks for enjoyability, character development, and story. However the more we discussed and dissected the plot we began to question plausibility. We ended up picking apart a lot of the storyline's subplots. How was Bebe able to whisk her baby out of the adoptive parents' house and get her to an airport and fly to China? What about the passport? "Wait, what?" That was just for starters. However we agreed that this book was a good book club choice: kept our interest, we wanted to know what happened next. It was full of good discussion points.
The perfect reinforcement to our questioning the credibility of the plot and subplots was provided by Lori. We watched the youtube video of James E Ryan's (Dean of Graduate Education at Harvard) commencement speech, "Wait, What" just one of life's five essential questions (and now a book).
Janna's fur babies provided us with lots of photo ops too.
Next month we are reading The Leavers by Lisa Ko.
