
Titles in This Set
Everything I Never Told You
Little Fires Everywhere
Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Author: Celeste Ng
Overview
This Celeste Ng collection pairs two acclaimed novels of family, secrets, and the quiet forces that shape identity. Everything I Never Told You unravels the disappearance of a daughter in a mixed-race family haunted by unspoken expectations, while Little Fires Everywhere follows a custody battle that exposes fault lines of class and motherhood in a picture-perfect suburb. Both showcase Ng's precise, character-driven storytelling and her gift for turning ordinary domestic moments into gripping emotional drama. A must-own set for readers of literary fiction, book clubs, and fans of layered family sagas.
About the Books
Celeste Ng established herself as one of contemporary fiction's most incisive chroniclers of family life with these two novels, both praised for restrained prose and sharp social observation. Everything I Never Told You, her debut, opens with the drowning of Lydia Lee, favorite daughter of a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio. As her parents and siblings search for answers, the novel peels back decades of silence and cultural pressure, revealing how much a family can fail to say to one another even while living under the same roof. It is a tightly constructed mystery as much as it is a meditation on grief, memory, and the different ways people cope with loss. Little Fires Everywhere shifts to the meticulously ordered suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, where the arrival of a free-spirited artist and her teenage daughter unsettles the Richardson family and ignites a custody dispute that divides the community along lines of race, class, privilege, and motherhood in modern American life. Ng weaves multiple perspectives together with patient, image-rich prose, letting small, ordinary choices accumulate into consequences no one can fully control. Together, these two novels demonstrate why Ng has become one of the defining voices in modern literary fiction, exposing the assumptions and quiet resentments that shape everyday family life inside seemingly ordinary, carefully curated households.
Key Benefits
Book-by-Book Guide
Everything I Never Told You — Ng's debut unravels the drowning of teenager Lydia Lee, exposing family silence in 1970s Ohio.
Little Fires Everywhere — A custody dispute in Shaker Heights exposes tensions of race, class, and motherhood.
About the Author
Celeste Ng is a New York Times bestselling author known for precise, character-driven explorations of family and identity. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, the real-life setting for Little Fires Everywhere, drawing on her background in a family of scientists to bring an observant, almost clinical eye to domestic drama. Her novels Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere have both been named to numerous best-of-the-year lists by major publications and translated into more than thirty languages worldwide, establishing her as one of today's most acclaimed literary voices.
Why You'll Love This Collection
This pairing delivers two immersive family dramas packed with secrets, tension, and unforgettable characters. Perfect for book clubs, a thoughtful birthday gift, holiday season reading, or a summer reading list, this brand new paperback set brings Celeste Ng's most acclaimed novels together in one satisfying bundle.
Please Note: This is the UK edition with the ISBN as listed; the cover may vary slightly from the image shown.
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