Middle-child Lydia became the center of attention of her parents. One who wants you to stand out and one who wants you to blend in. From there you can now see how contrasting they are as parents. Marilyn, a physics major with dreams of attending medical school, who grew up being so obsessed with succeeding and when she saw her dreams failing, she passed the pressure to Lydia. James, now working as a professor of history, who, as a boy always tried to fit in and that’s what he wanted her daughter to emulate. “The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you–whether because you didn’t get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.”Īfter Lydia was found dead at the bottom of the lake and not knowing if it’s murder or suicide, there’s Lydia’s parents, Caucasian Marilyn and Asian James, questioning what they did wrong. Along the way, readers will get revelations and answers from the tiny little things that the author has scattered in the book. What follows next are pages of intricately detailed and weaved relationships touching complex topics that ranges from close family ties, infidelity, depression, pressure, racial identity to racism and sexism. The book navigates through the past and present of the family allowing the readers to understand the cause and effect of the lost of the family’s beloved 16-year old daughter and sister. But they don’t know this yet.”, giving the readers an intense start where the story took off. They always find themselves always trying to fit in the norm. A mixed-race family is still uncommon in the United States during that time so there’s that for a briefer. The book is about the mixed-race Lee family, living in the 1970 Ohio, United States. That’s where I understood that this book is not just a simple contemporary family saga. That’s where I understood why it was made that way. But midway through the book, the pacing started to pick up and I couldn’t stop reading. That’s also the reason why it took me some time to finish it because it kind of bored me at some part. A couple of pages in, the pacing and style didn’t work for me causing me to be confused a lot of time asking myself where the story is heading. It’s character driven story line really worked well with it’s pacing. ― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You “What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.” This book dig deeper to the core of the characters making the book so fascinating. I can’t remember reading any other book that gave so much emphasis on it’s character building. I didn’t expect the book to turn out to be so deep and complex. I can’t explain the sensation that I felt after finishing the last page. That’s my first thought after I read this book.
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