Everything I Never Told You A Novel Celeste Ng by Celeste Ng 9781594205712, 159420571X instant download after payment.

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. Everything I Never Told You is a gripping page-turner, about secrets, love, longing, lies & race.

Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn & James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes & 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 & the centre of every party. But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in a 1970s small-town Ohio. Her father is an American born of 1st-generation Chinese immigrants, & his ethnicity, & hers, make them conspicuous in any setting.

"At its core, Ng's book is a conventional, domestically centred novel about an American family ...despite the Lees' interracial status, issues of ethnic & cultural identity are largely 2ndary to Ng's main ambition here: probing the emotional wounds that have scarred the family ...Ng's portrait of the relationship between Lydia & Marilyn, especially, feels true & fully realized. It's also heart-wrenching ... an engaging work that casts a powerful light on the secrets that have kept an American family together — & that finally end up tearing it apart."  -  Hector Tobar, L.A. Times

Celeste Ng wrote the novel Everything I Never Told You, which was a NY Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, & also the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the ALA’s Alex Award, &the Medici Book Club Prize, & a finalist for others, including the Ohioana Award, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award, & the VCU Cabell 1st Novelist Award.