The novel takes us to a world where everything is controlled by the author with a mastermind i.e Celeste Ng. Firstly it was Our Missing Hearts which touched our hearts when we listened to the story of a young lad who was in search of his mother. The boy understood everything through the songs and stories which his mother had written. Cassandra Campbell narrates the same kind of story here for the fans of Little Fires Everywhere.
A Chinese American family is under discussion once again. Marilyn and James are the parents of a lovely girl named Lydia who is the center of attention for the entire family. The parents think that their daughter will be able to progress and prosper in this new society and she will get all the benefits that they failed to obtain. The hopes get shattered when they are told that Lydia’s body is found in the lake nearby.
The parents were unable to believe that their lovely daughter was not in the world anymore and she had turned into a dead body. This incident took everything away from the Lee family and the investigation also starts bringing out the secrets which the family has been trying to hide for such a long time.
No one can believe that the family had some issues which were being discussed in the house and the death of the young girl has something to do with all that. The grief enhances the impact of the secrets that the parents were keeping because of which everything they ever worked for shattered in front of their eyes. Thus Lydia can be treated as a symbol of the downfall of the family.
