A haunting debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet ... So begins the...
A haunting debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet ... So begins the...
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A haunting debut
novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will
either be their undoing or their salvation
Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet ...
So begins the story in this exquisite debut novel about a
Chinese American family living in a small town in 1970s 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' 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 is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. 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 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.
Celeste Ng is an author whose debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, won the Hopwood Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the ALA's Alex Award. She is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize and was a 2016 NEA fellow. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, attended Harvard University, and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan.
Starred review from April 14, 2014 This emotionally involving debut novel explores themes of belonging using the story of the death of a teenage girl, Lydia, from a mixed-race family in 1970s Ohio. Lydia is the middle and favorite child of Marilyn Walker, a white Virginian, and James Lee, a first-generation Chinese-American. Marilyn and James meet in 1957, when she is a premed at Radcliffe and he, a graduate student, is teaching one of her classes. The two fall in love and marry, over the objections of Marilyn’s mother, whose comment on their interracial relationship is succinct: “It’s not right.” Marilyn gets pregnant and gives up her dream of becoming a doctor, devoting her life instead to raising Lydia and the couple’s other two children, Nathan and Hannah. Then Marilyn abruptly moves out of their suburban Ohio home to go back to school, only to return before long. When Lydia is discovered dead in a nearby lake, the family begins to fall apart. As the police try to decipher the mystery of Lydia’s death, her family realize that they didn’t know her at all. Lydia is remarkably imagined, her unhappy teenage life crafted without an ounce of cliché. Ng’s prose is precise and sensitive, her characters richly drawn. Agent: Julie Barer, Barer Literary.
Uwem Akpan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Say You're One of Them
"I couldn't stop reading Everything I Never Told You...The writing is so smooth and keenly observed. The portrait of each member of the Lee family, the exploration of their mixed-race issues, and the search for the killer of their sister and daughter, Lydia, pulled at my heartstrings to the very end."
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Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. With an opening like this, rather unexpectedly delivered in Cassandra Campbell's sweet tone, the listener is easily drawn in. Who's Lydia, and what happened to her? Who are "they," and why don't they know? These questions drive the plot of this book. Campbell guide listeners carefully as she explores the complexities of families, and society in general. The story of the tragic teenage Lydia begins with her lonesome youth, in particular her relationship with her parents. Campbell's pacing is steady and calm, and her shifts between the past and present are clear. Her voice evens out the characters, whose dialogue seems stilted at times. L.B.F. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
