![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But unwelcome change is precisely what disrupts the Richardson family’s rather happy life, when Mia, a charismatic, somewhat mysterious artist, and her smart, shy 15-year-old daughter, Pearl, move to town and become tenants in a rental house Mrs. It’s not for nothing that Ng ( Everything I Never Told You, 2014) begins her second novel, about the events leading to the burning of the home of an outwardly perfect-seeming family in Shaker Heights, Ohio, circa 1997, with two epigraphs about the planned community itself-attesting to its ability to provide its residents with “protection forever against…unwelcome change” and “a rather happy life” in Utopia. This incandescent portrait of suburbia and family, creativity, and consumerism burns bright. ![]()
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