Little Fires Everywhere

Both novels use a specific aspirational community as a pressure chamber for class critique — Gatsby from the outside trying in, Ng from the inside looking at what getting in actually means

Ng's debut — similar themes of family secrets, race, identity, and a child's death as the event that unravels what came before

Another multi-generational domestic novel that uses a family as a vehicle for social critique; both examine how family structures replicate cultural failures

The experience of racial identity in predominantly white American professional spaces — Adichie's scope is national, Ng's is hyperlocal, but both are asking what it costs to belong

Frequently taught alongside Ng's novel — both address race in American communities, with different genre registers (YA versus literary fiction) and different class positions

Another dual-narrative novel about two women whose lives collide and whose different relationships to power and choice illuminate each other