| ISBN-13: | 9780143127550 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 05/12/2015 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Sales rank: | 6,952 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d) |
| Lexile: | 870L (what's this?) |
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year• A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice• Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award• Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New YorkThe acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts“A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine“Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
