Everything I Never Told You

The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts

"A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense." --O, the Oprah Magazine

"Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family." --Entertainment Weekly

"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.

Author: Celeste Ng
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 06/26/2014
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781594205712
Age Range: 18-UP
Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Award: Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2014 pg. 68
Publishers Weekly 04/14/2014
Library Journal 05/01/2014 pg. 69
Booklist 05/15/2014 pg. 13
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2014
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 10
Shelf Awareness 06/27/2014
Entertainment Weekly 07/04/2014 pg. 69
New York Times Book Review 08/17/2014 pg. 16
New York Times Book Review 08/24/2014 pg. 30
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 26
SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens 12/01/2014 pg. 31
Shelf Awareness 12/12/2014
Entertainment Weekly 12/12/2014 pg. 72
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2015 pg. 10
Entertainment Weekly 05/22/2015 pg. 66
People 06/08/2015 pg. 42
Library Journal 01/01/2014

About the Author
Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.