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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

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Author

Celeste Ng; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Penguin USA;The Penguin Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143127550

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction