![]() ![]() The novel is about a mixed-race Chinese-American family whose middle daughter Lydia is found drowned in a nearby lake. ![]() 1 2 3 The novel topped Amazon's Best Books of the Year list for 2014. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Talk Read Edit View history Tools Everything I Never Told You is the 2014 debut novel by Celeste Ng. 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. 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. ![]()
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