Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng6/20/2023 In the novel, Izzy - tired of being treated like a buzzing, infected mosquito instead of a valued member of her own family, especially by her mom - pours gasoline on each of her siblings’ beds, throws a match on all three, then runs away from home. When Izzy (Megan Stott), the fourth and youngest Richardson child, who has a fraught relationship with her mother, realizes what Elena has done, it pushes her over an edge on which she’s been teetering for a while. As in the book, Elena kicks Mia and Pearl (Lexi Underwood) out of the property they’ve been renting from her. That allowed the series to dig more directly into the overlap between class and racial issues, both in the custody battle over May Ling as well as the conflicts between Elena (Reese Witherspoon), Mia (Kerry Washington), and their respective children.īut in the highly dramatic final episode, “Find a Way,” the concluding moments veer significantly from Ng’s work, in ways that sometimes defy believability. One of the smartest changes was to make Mia and Pearl, the new residents of Shaker Heights whose lives become entwined with the members of the Richardson family, African-American. Some of those choices enriched this story of the inequities in supposedly perfect Shaker Heights, Ohio. In adapting Little Fires Everywhere from page to screen, showrunner Liz Tigelaar and her writers diverted from Celeste Ng’s novel in notable ways. Izzy (Megan Stott), reacting with the shock and horror her mother’s words deserve.
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