Everything I Never Told You

ByCeleste Ng

Release Date: 2014-06-26
Genre: Literary Fiction

Score: 4

From 3,529 Ratings

Description

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.

Reviews

Great story
5
By ObiEllie
Beautifully written with characters that are relatable
Loved it.
5
By bookmi
A really nice story. Well written
Just okay.
2
By sharky 2011
Too repetitive. Seems dated. But then, Im not Asian so maybe people are still stuck in the stereotype stone age.
Secrets
4
By JeanneInDallasTx
A family trying to get it right… gets everything so wrong.
Excellent
5
By bella's bff
The person who said this book lacked emotion was very wrong!
Boring
2
By wideread
Lacks emotional impact ….disappointing ..
A victim’s paradise
1
By Chicago926
If you’re looking for a woeful story of victimhood, this book is for you.
Entertaining
3
By Janie's Library
I finished this book even though I didn’t love it. It was ok, not great, like “Little Fires.”
Not was i was expecting
3
By awilli218
Really good if you like family oriented books. Thought it would be more murder-mystery like. Took me a while to get through because it’s not my usual thing haha.
Ok
3
By highway robbery fees
Pretty good but lacked a ton of substance in the end