read for Popsugar 2018 challenge: a past Goodreads Choice Awards winner

I. LOVED. THIS. BOOK. I took a break from reading it when I was reading exclusively black authors in February, but when I picked it up again, I could not put it down. Celeste Ng weaves this really incredible domestic tale about these two families and how they deal with the world. She writes really great characters who change throughout the novel in subtle but complicated ways. I was so invested in the Richardsons and the Warrens, while being totally enthralled in the background story of the court case. Plus everything just crashed together in the end so perfectly! I don't even have words to articulate how much I loved this.

I was also delighted to find out that Ng was born in Pittsburgh, and features it at one point in the story! She grew up in Cleveland, hence the setting, and it was just so cool that the story felt so local to me (Shaker Heights is so genuinely like the town I grew up in).

It's just been announced that Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington will be producing and starring in an adaptation (a limited series I believe?) and now I am so pumped!