A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another. EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU by Celeste Ng RELEASE DATE: JNg's nuanced debut novel begins with the death of a teenage girl and then uses the mysterious circumstances of her drowning as a springboard to dive into the troubled waters beneath the calm surface of her Chinese-American family.
But when Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family." - Entertainment Weekly "Lydia is dead. The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts "A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense." - O, the Oprah Magazine "Explosive.
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