Everything I Never Told You

✍ Scribed by Celeste Ng

• Publisher: Penguin Group US; Penguin Books
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Amazon.com's no. 1 Book of the Year 2014

Lydia
is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited
her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her
parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were
unable to pursue - in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor
rather than a homemaker, in James's case that Lydia be popular at
school, a girl with a busy social life and the centre of every party.
But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in
1970s small town Ohio. Her father is an American born of
first-generation Chinese immigrants, and his ethnicity, and hers, make
them conspicuous in any setting.

When Lydia's body is found in
the local lake, James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless
path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is
determined to make someone accountable, no matter what the cost.
Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is convinced that local bad boy Jack is
somehow involved. But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who
observes far more than anyone realises and who may be the only one who
knows what really happened.

Everything I Never Told You is a gripping page-turner, about secrets, love, longing, lies and race.

✦ Subjects

Ohio