Penguin Press
Everything I Never Told You
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award - Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New York
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 . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family." --Entertainment Weekly
"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. 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 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. 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.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9781594205712
EAN:
9781594205712
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
304
Authors:
Celeste Ng
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Published Date: 2014-26-06
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Phenomenal book - read it as I was grieving loss of my brother and it was touching, beautifully written and soothing in some strange way.
Insightful, beautiful book!
I didn’t want to like this book because it was so sad; I wanted to give it 4 stars instead of 5. But…this story is really good; I can see “real” life in it.
Love this book!
Celeste Ng has a way of writing about family that feels so real—the love, the fractures, the quiet resentments, and the unspoken words that shape relationships over time. Everything I Never Told You is a stunning, emotionally layered novel that explores the weight of expectations, identity, and grief, all wrapped up in the mystery of Lydia’s death.As a big fan of Ng’s work, I was completely drawn into this story from the first sentence. Her writing is both delicate and powerful, peeling back the layers of the Lee family’s past to reveal their deeply ingrained struggles. The way she captures the unspoken pain between parents and children, the cultural and generational pressures, and the suffocating expectations placed on Lydia is sometimes painful to read—but in the best way.What makes this novel so powerful is that it's not just about what happened to Lydia but also about why. Ng masterfully untangles the complexities of family dynamics, race, and identity with a quiet intensity that lingers long after the last page. It’s heartbreaking yet beautifully written—a novel that hurts but also makes you think.If you love character-driven, emotional stories that explore family and identity with stunning prose, Everything I Never Told You is an absolute must-read. Celeste Ng proves once again that she is a master of capturing the raw, unspoken truths within families.
