“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.
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