Sixteen-year-old Lydia is the daughter of Marilyn and James Lee. Celeste Ng's debut novel Everything I Never Told You (Penguin Press, 2014) alternates between past and present and is told from the various perspectives of each grieving member of the family, all of whom come to realize in their own way how little they knew about the people they thought they knew best. As her parents and siblings struggle to solve the mystery of her death, a web of family secrets emerge to reveal how fragile the relationships between husband and wife, parent and child, and brother and sister can be when ambitions are thwarted, societal pressures mount, and fears and desires are kept buried. In a small town in Ohio in 1977, the oldest daughter and favorite child of a biracial couple - her mother is white, her father is Chinese-American - is found drowned in a lake. "Cultural issues don't have to be a barrier, but you can't pretend they're not there." - Celeste Ng in HIPPO Reads But they don’t know this yet." -from Everything I Never Told You
Writes The New York Times Book Review: "If we know this story, we haven't seen it yet in American fiction, not until now." Achingly, precisely, and sensitively written" (). It explores "alienation, achievement, race, gender, family, and identity-as the police must unravel what has happened to Lydia, the Lee family must uncover the sister and daughter that they hardly knew. A gripping page-turner and striking family portrait, the novel follows a Chinese American family in 1970s small-town Ohio as they try to understand the death of the oldest daughter, Lydia. A graduate of Harvard, she knocked it out of the park with her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Amazon #1 Best Book of 2014 winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Fiction and named a best book of the year by more than a dozen publications, including National Public Radio, Entertainment Weekly, School Library Journal, and The Huffington Post. National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellow Celeste Ng grew up in Pennsylvania and Ohio in a family of scientists.
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