{"id":5930,"date":"2021-07-20T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T20:30:15","slug":"pick-of-the-week-everything-i-never-told-you-by-celeste-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2021\/07\/20\/pick-of-the-week-everything-i-never-told-you-by-celeste-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick of the Week: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everything I Never Told You<\/em> by Celeste Ng<\/h3>\n

Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. <\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You<\/em> 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.\u00a0 (From publisher.)<\/p>\n

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