Celeste Ng, "Everything I Never Told You"
June 1, 2015
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as posted by the channelWhat happened to Lydia? The question at the center of Ng’s acclaimed debut novel involves more than just how the young woman’s body ended up in a lake. With Lydia’s death her seemingly close-knit family pulls apart, and the narrative explores the frustrations of her mother, who gave up her medical studies for her family, the anger and survival strategies of her two surviving siblings, and the challenges each of the Lees have faced in balancing the Chinese and American halves of the family—a stability that had seemed achieved in the blue-eyed, black-haired Lydia, the focus of her parents’ dreams.
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