Everything I Never Told You in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Jul 22, 2014 Rincey rated it liked it

Shelves: poc-author, 2014

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Aug 29, 2014 Amy rated it it was amazing

Omg staggering! Wonderful and heartbreaking. Those things sound cliche but this is truly an amazing book. It will stay with me for a long time. Sad. Beautiful.

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Jul 31, 2014 Audacia Ray rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, read-in-2015

I have wanted to read this book and have procrastinated reading it for about the same amount of time, because of the sad. Yes, it delivers on the sad. It got me thinking a lot about the ways in which silence within families is violence, and the ways in which I have sometimes upheld that kind of violence in my personal relationships and also my family of origin. Silence gives no chance for understanding, and ample space for people to make their own realities in bad ways. That said, the book itsel ...more

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Jun 04, 2015 Jenny rated it really liked it

Thanks to the many CBR7 folks whose positive reviews of this book helped put it on my radar when I was in the airport gift store, looking for something to read. Celeste Ng has created a powerful novel (I can’t believe it’s a debut) that captures the complexity of many things—growing up in the Midwest in the 1970’s, being the Other in a variety of situations, and the way parents and children fail to understand each other.

The novel begins with the drowning death of Lydia Lee, the middle child and ...more

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Apr 23, 2017 Rebecca rated it really liked it

Shelves: bookclub-read

Beautifully written and compelling, but a dark subject matter.

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Dec 08, 2014 Booktart rated it liked it

Shelves: contemporary-fiction

A fast-paced, heartbreaking read that incorporates themes of race and interracial marriage, women's rights, family dynamics, the pressure parental expectations can put on a child, and grief. This takes place in the 70's so its exploration of race and attitudes towards women is very interesting and more than a backdrop to the story, as societal expectations ultimately created the desperate situation that the Lee's daughter found herself in. ...more

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Jun 09, 2021 Maya added it · review of another edition

It was just so sad! I did appreciate the glimpse into the Asian American experience, especially in the 70s in the Midwest. And it was certainly well written.

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