Everything I Never Told You

“Everything I Never Told You” unfolds beautifully. There are a lot of elements to this book that affect me in a personal way as a half-Asian person who grew up in the United States. The family dynamic is fascinating and somehow familiar. If I could give this more than five stars, I would. The word that comes to mind that sums up the whole book for me is “devastating”. While reading scenes within which my own feelings as teenager were clearly remembered and depicted, I felt actual pain. In my chest, in my eyes. There are casual lines throughout that hit me with the full weight of memory. Identity is the critical component of what propels this drama and, by the end of the book, I could only identify myself as a sobbing mess.