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“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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"This book kept my interest throughout. While it is often described as a story of interracial marriage and resulting interpersonal problems, I believe it is actually a story of the kind of conflicts that can occur when parental expectations for their children go beyond wishing them to develop their own talents to their very best to either expecting them to achieve specific successes in areas that the parents were unable to meet for various reasons or to meet goals that are beyond the children's ability. The problems arise when their children, out of a desire to please their parents, are unable to communicate frustrations out of fear of disappointing them. The story is about how the children adapt, or can't adapt, to these pressures and about suppressed frustrations of both children and their parents."
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Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng Books Reviews
- I probably shouldn't review this book. Five years ago I lost a child. Two years ago I lost my husband, in March I lost my daughter in law. So for me this was not time to read a book about a tragic death. It does remind you, as I remind myself daily, that you must tell family you love them, do something nice for someone you hardly know, say all you need to say before you lose the, because those moments wont come back for even one minute. There are no "second chances" even if you think you can wait another day. I finished the book last night crying - because I know, there are things that you should say today, now, and not leave it untold.
The family dynamics were amazing as it is for so many families. All that matters is love. Not what other people think that don't live in your world. Go do, do it now. - The constant strife and lack of character development made this a long miserable read. The fact she threw in the gay surprise at the end only confirmed my suspicion that she wanted to write a "hot" point book. I only finished it because it was a book club selection.
- When I read EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU by Celeste Ng, I wasn't sure if mentally I was ready for another book starting with a death. But as good writing can do, this story picked me up by the end of the first chapter and carried me away to a time in American life that I never gave much thought to. Set in the 70s, the story follows a Chinese American blended family in Ohio. When Lydia is found floating in the lake, her family is forced to analyze what put her there. Was it pressure from her family to succeed? Was it pressure to fit in? Was it a crime of passion or convenience? I was spellbound reading the last half of this book. I loved each flawed family member, especially Hannah,. While the story went where I hoped it would go, I was not disappointed at all with the progression. It was also quite insightful on the prejudices that society had about Chinese Americans still during that timeframe and how careful parents have to be to put their dreams onto their children.
I am grateful my book club chose this book for February so that I finally prioritized reading it. I think it will lend itself to a great discussion and the author's notes at the end provide a lot of insight into how it was written and her inspiration. I highly recommend this one. - This book kept my interest throughout. While it is often described as a story of interracial marriage and resulting interpersonal problems, I believe it is actually a story of the kind of conflicts that can occur when parental expectations for their children go beyond wishing them to develop their own talents to their very best to either expecting them to achieve specific successes in areas that the parents were unable to meet for various reasons or to meet goals that are beyond the children's ability. The problems arise when their children, out of a desire to please their parents, are unable to communicate frustrations out of fear of disappointing them. The story is about how the children adapt, or can't adapt, to these pressures and about suppressed frustrations of both children and their parents.
- This author writes with a heavy hand. She wants to make sure you get it so she tells you over and over and over again that this is a dysfunctional family. That the parents are living out their frustrations through their children. That their children are submissive and unhappy. That their family experience racial discrimination. To make sure you get it she draws stereotypical portraits of her characters. After a while the reader feels he is being clobbered with a literary hammer. If the author only had more confidence in her reader this would be a much better book. But as it is, one could spend one's time more profitability reading something else.
- To me, this is an exceptionally good book. The subject is a dark one—the death, at the beginning of the book, of a daughter, Lydia (the sister to two siblings) who has just turned 16. I don’t usually read dark books or watch dark movies. But the book is a page-turner, and it contains very thoughtful events, circumstances and observations about a dysfunctional but believable family whose problems can apply universally.
The book is about relationships and the effects on a father and his children of being visually different (here, Asian-American in a virtually all-white community). While they want to blend in and be accepted in society, his wife, an American, struggles to stand out as being different, and to impose that goal on her daughter.
Despite the primary focus on relationships and the effects of looking different than others (consequently, with a different life experience), the book flows as well as any mystery. There are plenty of flashbacks and fast-forwards, as well as action and thoughts in the present. Was the daughter murdered? Did she die in an accident or by suicide? How can they find the answers? What are the effects on the surviving members of the family? Why did all this happen?
The only part of the book that I did not find realistic was in the first chapter or two, when Lydia has disappeared and does not return. The description of the situation appeared to cover the logical bases—although with a delay in calling the police. But these beginning pages do not describe the terror, panic, helplessness, and frantic nature of the disappearance of a child. I write as someone who has had this same situation happen in my family to a daughter of the same age as Lydia (but with a happier ending).
Celeste Ng is an excellent writer, and I suspect that the decision to play down the emotions of this event at the beginning of the book results from her primary interests in describing the causes and effects of an event like this. She gives lots of attention to the event itself as the book goes on, and the ending can leave the reader with some questions that will never be answered, but with a good understanding of how family relationships and events can cause the event that happened in this book. It is a good lesson for all parents of children up through their teenage years.
Potentially, this book can save lives. Therefore, in addition to being a good story and a good read, it is an important book. It should appeal especially to anyone who is or feels different than virtually all other people in a community, but its application and appeal and interest is far broader. My family is all “white Americanâ€, yet I was engrossed by this book and wish that the book had been written and I had read it 30 years ago. It could have made a difference.
