Everything I never told you - Supernormal Reads

297 pages

English language

Published 2014 by The Penguin Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-59420-571-2
OCLC Number:: 862149050

(1 review)

"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. A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family, and uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another" -- Provided by publisher.

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ralentina reviewed Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng

'Emotionally manipulative but soothing' (cit)

3 stars

I read this book in just two sessions, which is generally a good sign. It’s the story of the making of a family, its coming apart, and its patching itself back together, however imperfectly. Although at times I found the character a little too one-dimensional, there was something touching about everyone’s frailty and desire to do good by the others (if only we knew what is ‘good’). Especially towards the end, reading felt a little like watching a good American movie: emotionally manipulative, but soothing - I was wallowing in the drama.

Subjects

Grief
Drowning
Death
FICTION / Literary
Daughters
Fiction