In the series, Trip immediately feels guilty after they have sex for the first time, though they continue seeing each other. In the novel, Pearl and Trip have an affair and are clueless to Moody's feelings about her.Additionally, Pearl is much more openly resentful of their nomadic lifestyle and jealous of the Richardsons in the novel while in the series, she's more amenable towards them. In the book, they almost never directly confront each other. In the series, Elena and Mia are much more openly antagonistic towards each other once Bebe finds her daughter, and they have direct confrontations about the custody situation.Adaptational Jerkass: Due to having to put up with Elena forcing herself into her and her daughter's lives, Mia becomes a lot more abrasive and fiery-tempered than she was in the book.In the book, anything to do with Bebe is only hinted for a long time. Adaptational Early Appearance: Bebe appears in the second episode of the show and mentions she has a daughter, May Ling, and not too long after that Mia pieces together that baby Mirabelle is actually May Ling.However, she goes to great lengths to hide it, including putting Pearl's name on the abortion papers, which causes a bigger fallout later. She is shown to have very mixed feelings, but the people who learn about it don't tell her it was wrong. Abortion Fallout Drama: Lexie has an abortion after getting pregnant with her boyfriend's baby so they can go to college.The novel was adapted into a miniseries airing on Hulu in 2020, starring Reese Witherspoon as Elena and Kerry Washington as Mia. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town-and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. Enter Mia Warren-an enigmatic artist and single mother-who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned-from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. Izzy represents disruption and ostracism, and her relationship with her own mother is one of the relationships at the heart of the novel’s theme of mothers and daughters.Little Fires Everywhere is the second novel by Celeste Ng. Izzy takes Mia’s advice a bit too literally, and uses Mia’s words as fuel for school pranks, for challenging her parents, and for, eventually, literally setting a fire to her family’s home. Mia teaches Izzy several lessons about agency, change, and renewal, prodding her to “do something” to change the things in her life with which she is unhappy and warning her that, like ground razed by fire, sometimes “everything” must be burnt to the ground to make way for the “growth” of new ideas. Mia agrees, and the two begin spending most of their afternoons together, working in the rental house.

Izzy, drawn to Mia because of her freedom, artistry, and sensitivity, asks to become her photography assistant. Richardson, Izzy learns throughout the course of the novel-at the prodding of Mia Warren-to use her voice and her action to “do something” about her circumstances.

Born prematurely and, as a result, over-parented by her mother Mrs. The youngest and most rebellious of the Richardson children, Izzy is a freshman in high school and is desperate for escape from her heavily-regulated life.

Little fire everywhere