With her job answering fan mail for a teen magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you’re fat, to be noticed is to be judged. Published May 24th, 2016 by Mariner Books Touching upon issues of racism, classism, interracial relationships, infidelity and homosexuality, Celeste Ng’s debut is a literary fiction masterpiece that would make an excellent book club selection. Everything I Never Told You is a thrilling page-turner that throbs with the intense vulnerability of a raw nerve as Ng incises the Lee family secrets with the precision and deft hands of a skilled surgeon and explores how insidiously and perversely the legacy of a parent’s past can bleed into a child’s future. As the story hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion to answer its most burning question – “What happened to Lydia Lee?” – readers learn more about the lies, secrets and dysfunction that exist just below the surface of this seemingly happy family. The novel’s narration and pace are languid and elegant, like trying to capture the last, fleeting moments of a dream, or wading ever deeper into the deep, murky water in which Lydia’s body was found, and perfectly encapsulates the suffocating sense of grief and isolation that permeates every page.
Though the novel begins in May 1977, no detail is too small to escape Ng’s notice, as the author delves deeply into the lives of the four primary characters – Marilyn (the mother), James (the father), Nathan (the eldest brother) and Hannah (the youngest daughter) – both past and present. A profoundly moving story of family, drama, 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.Įverything I Never Told You is a heart-wrenching examination of a family in crisis after the unexpected and untimely death of their most beloved member, Lydia, the middle daughter and reluctant centre of their universe. 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. 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 they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio.
Genre & Keywords Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mysteryįind It On Goodreads Published May 12th, 2015 by Penguin Books
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