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Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng

Why we're reading this: Asian American Writers Book Club selection for May in association with the Asian American Center of Frede…more
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Apr 12, 2016 Kimberly rated it it was amazing

While this book is marketed as a book about racism, and covers the effects of subtle racism, it is so much more than that. The book succinctly covers complex family relationships and how a parents' hopes for their children can be the very thing that divides the parent-child relationship. It shows that when people try to fulfill the expectations of others, they start to make assumptions about what others want and without true and honest communication, can end up so far from where they were trying ...more

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Jan 12, 2015 Charlie Smith rated it it was amazing

Original review can be read in full at blog, HERE WE ARE GOING, here: https://herewearegoing.wordpress.com/...

"Everything I Never Told You" by Celeste Ng, 297pgs, Penguin Press, 2014

Some books are so carefully, lovingly crafted, some stories so startlingly, truthfully told, some authors so prescient and insightful, so gifted at recreating the journeys of real people's' lives with words, rhythm, and a near-supernatural ability to know what to include and what to omit, that turning to the last pa ...more

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