Everything I Never Told You
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"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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My chief beef with this book is that I thought it was going to be a thriller and it wasn't, really. As a novel about family life, it was quite good, especially regarding sibling relationships.
Everything about this book is tragic – the main event, all of the relationships, all the things they never tell each other. Yet the story is so compelling. I was gripped, wanting to intervene and clear up misunderstandings between the characters and tell them all what they aren't seeing. It's such a strange feeling to enjoy a book so much that made me so sad.
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