Everything I Never Told You: A Novel
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2014:Lydia is dead.From the first sentence of Celeste Ng’s stunning debut, we know that the oldest daughter of the Chinese-American Lee family has died. What follows is a novel that explores alienation, achievement, race, gender, family, and identity--as the police must unravel what has happened to Lydia, the Lee family must uncover the sister and daughter that they hardly knew. There isn’t a false note in this book, and my only concern in describing my profound admiration forEverything I Never Told Youis that it might raise unachievable expectations in the reader. But it’s that good. Achingly, precisely, and sensitively written.--Chris Schluep