
That was enough turmoil to prompt Mia to take off from New York, change her name to "Mia Warren," and give birth to Pearl in San Francisco. Then, her beloved younger brother, Warren, died in a car accident and Mia's parents discovered her pregnancy. At first, she thought she could go through with the Ryans' plan. Little Fires Everywhere is the type of celebrity book club-inspired drama were talking about Witherspoons book club, in this case built to be a thirst. As the name suggests, everyone in this world has a fire inside them, but it takes different shapes. This was before the days of IVF, so the child would be Joe and Mia's, conceived through a turkey baster. Celeste Ng, who won the BookBrowse Fiction Award for her well-known book Everything I Never Told You, came out with Little Fire Everywhere, another fantastically complicated story. Then, Mia lost her scholarship, making her desperate enough to accept the $10,000 the Ryans were offering to have a child-and give her up. Based on Celeste Ngs 2017 bestseller, Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother. Mia initially wrote off Joe's strange offer. Why did he approach Mia, of all young women? Easy: She happened to be the spitting image of his wife. One day, Mia was approached on the subway by a stranger with an extraordinary proposition: Joe Ryan wanted Mia to carry a child for him and his wife, who could not get pregnant. Her mentor and professor was Paula Hawthorne, one of the the era's most influential photographers.


At 18, Mia left her working-class Pennsylvania family to attend art school in New York.
