Everything I Never Told You

I enjoyed this story very much but was not amazed by the plot line and felt I wanted more from it.

This story is about the struggles families of mixed races endures and especially in the 60's and 70's, the story revolves around the Lee family and their children who suffer in such silence which eventually leads to the end of life for one of them. I'm not of Asian decent but I can relate to the struggles of not fitting in as I grew up a Mexican child in a predominately Caucasian education system. The Lee's have three children Nath, Lydia, and Hannah who endure so much racism in their every day life without their parents even realizing their struggles. Their mother Marilyn, who is Caucasian, wants them to be successful whether that means they have a social life or not. Lydia can no longer take the pressure and starts to make questionable decisions that the parents have no clue about. This really resonated with me, as a child and teen I was able to keep my life pretty private from my family because I did not want to disappoint them. If I would have gone missing, such as Lydia does in this story, my parents would have had a difficult time accepting the life I was leading outside our home. In the end the Lee family has to come to grips with the truth whether they want to accept it or not.

Again, this story was good but I wanted more from Lydia's point of view. I felt the truth of her disappearance was rushed and really didn't give me the ending I wanted and really needed.