
Titles in This Set
Little Fires Everywhere
Everything I Never Told You
Our Missing Hearts
Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789124283926
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Overview
This collection brings together three novels by Celeste Ng, known for precise, emotionally layered storytelling. Little Fires Everywhere unfolds in Shaker Heights, where a custody battle and a mysterious fire expose cracks beneath a community's polished surface. Everything I Never Told You traces the aftermath of a daughter's disappearance in 1970s Ohio, unraveling a family's buried expectations. Our Missing Hearts imagines a near-future America where a boy searches for his missing mother while art and dissent collide with fear. Together, these novels reveal Ng's gift for quiet insight into family and belonging.
About the Books
Little Fires Everywhere centers on Elena Richardson, a rule-following mother in Shaker Heights, and Mia Warren, an itinerant artist renting a house from the Richardsons with her teenage daughter. A custody dispute over a local baby pulls the two families into open conflict, and a fire set in the Richardson home forces everyone to reckon with secrets they've kept. Ng uses the manicured suburban setting to probe privilege, motherhood, and who gets to decide what a family should look like.
Everything I Never Told You, Ng's debut novel, opens with the drowning of sixteen-year-old Lydia Lee, the favored child of a Chinese American father and white mother raising a mixed-race family in 1970s small-town Ohio. Moving between past and present, the novel uncovers the quiet pressures and unspoken hopes that shaped Lydia's life and death, and the silence that followed.
Our Missing Hearts is set in a near-future United States where fear of cultural disloyalty has reshaped daily life. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives quietly with his father after his mother, a poet, disappeared from their lives. A cryptic clue sends Bird searching for her, discovering along the way how stories and memory can resist a society built on suspicion.
Read individually or as a set, the three novels form a resonant arc across decades, unified by Ng's steady attention to family bonds under pressure and to the truths families often leave unspoken.
Key Benefits
Book-by-Book Guide
Little Fires Everywhere — A custody dispute and a fire expose secrets in orderly Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Everything I Never Told You — A daughter's drowning forces a 1970s Ohio family to face buried silences.
Our Missing Hearts — A boy searches for his missing mother in a fear-driven, near-future America.
About the Author
Celeste Ng is an American novelist raised in Pittsburgh and Shaker Heights, Ohio, the suburb that inspired Little Fires Everywhere. She holds a degree from Harvard University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. Ng is the author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts, novels known for close attention to family dynamics, identity, and the quiet pressures shaping ordinary lives. Her fiction has been translated into many languages and adapted for television. Ng lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Why You'll Love This Collection
A thoughtful gift for book clubs, holiday stockings, or your own summer reading stack. Ng's novels reward slow, attentive reading and spark rich discussion about family, identity, and belonging. Owning all three in one paperback set makes it easy to explore her full body of work, in reading order.
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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