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. 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 th...
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. 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’s 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 tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. 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 that 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 grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the ...
Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.
"You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing." -- "Everything I never told you" is definitely a good book. It successfully made me feel really angry and heartbroken while I..."You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing." -- "Everything I never told you" is definitely a good book. It successfully made me feel really angry and heartbroken while I was reading. I cannot describe too much, it is absolutely worth reading. The author, Celeste Ng is an American Chinese.(展开)
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28 有用 庙 2015-01-02 08:29:30
一般吧，quick read，無法想像作者居然用了6年寫這本書。。。
19 有用 信然 2014-12-21 04:45:41
"You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing." -- "Everything I never told you" is definitely a good book. It successfully made me feel really angry and heartbroken while I... "You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing." -- "Everything I never told you" is definitely a good book. It successfully made me feel really angry and heartbroken while I was reading. I cannot describe too much, it is absolutely worth reading. The author, Celeste Ng is an American Chinese. (展开)
1 有用 红猪 2015-05-09 16:32:47
后半部草草翻过，美国人好喜欢写这类题材啊，就像我们的婆媳剧一样
136 有用 王小军 2014-12-13 14:51:07
2014亚马逊editor's pick读后感：世上笨鸟有三种，一种是先飞的，一种是嫌累不飞的。问：那第三种呢？ 答：这种最讨厌，自己飞不起來，就在窝里下个蛋，要下一代使劲飞！"
3 有用 Kreuzberg 2015-05-22 12:40:11
三星半，悬疑部分其实并没有太过于出彩，青少年朦朦胧胧的感情更是败笔。对于跨种族婚姻、第二代华人、女性社会地位提升描写倒是挺好的。特别是Marilyn气急之下指责华裔丈夫只会向别人叩头时，所有的矛盾尽在不言中。