This is one of those books that I enjoyed while reading it, but as I have gained some distance from it, I am less sure how I feel about it overall. Dealing with issues of class inequality, abortion, and motherhood, the book primarily centers around the Richardsons--a wealthy family of six in a utopian Cleveland suburb--and their tenants, Mia and Pearl Warren, who become entrenched in the Richardson family's life. As the result of a rather far-fetched coincidence, Mrs. Richardson's black sheep daughter Izzy asks her to investigate into Mia Warren's life, leading Mrs. Richardson down a rabbit hole that uncovers something dark in Mia's past. The most disappointing thing about this book, to me, was Ng's treatment of Izzy. While it's not far fetched for her to run away, literally burning down the family house--not a spoiler, as this is how the book begins--does not succeed in granting her the moral superiority to the rest of her family that I think the author intended.