Little Fires Everywhere

I went into this book with zero knowledge about the plot, yet it's been on my list for ages. I loved Ng's first novel, Everything I Never Told You, and I have to admit that I was worried that this book would fall flat.

This book blew me away. At first glance it seems like it's going to be one kind of story... and then it shifts, into another one. And another. Ng has this incredible prose, and her approach to omniscient narration really humanizes every character in the book. She explores racial undercurrents and classism deftly, and each character has a complexity you find in real life.