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Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng
Penguin Press
July 2014
On Sale: June 26, 2014
Featuring: Lydia; Nathan; Jack
324 pages
ISBN: 159420571X
EAN: 9781594205712
Kindle: B00G3L7V0C
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Mystery
Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a
Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio.
Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their
middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother’s bright
blue eyes and her father’s jet-black hair. Her parents are
determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were
unable to pursue—in Marilyn’s case that her daughter become
a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James’s case that Lydia
be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the
center of every party. When Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate
balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together
tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept
secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. James,
consumed by guilt, sets out on a reckless path that may
destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is
determined to find a responsible party, no matter what the
cost. Lydia’s older brother, Nathan, is certain that the
neighborhood bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it’s the
youngest of the family—Hannah—who observes far more than
anyone realizes and who may be the only one who knows the
truth about what happened. A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the
meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a
gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait,
exploring the divisions between cultures and the rifts
within a family, and uncovering the ways in which mothers
and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives
struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
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