Little Fires Everywhere Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

Book Club Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, Books on Adoption and our BookBrowse Review of Little Fires Everywhere.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

1. Shaker Heights is almost another character in the novel. Do you believe that "the best communities are planned"? Why or why not?
2. There are many different kinds of mother-daughter relationships in the novel. Which ones did you find most compelling? Do mothers have a unique ability to spark fires, for good and ill, in us?
3. Which of the Richardson children is most changed by the events of the novel? How do you think this time ultimately changes Lexie's life? Trip's? Moody's? Izzy's?

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