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Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng

Start date: December 15, 2016

Finish date: January 1, 2017

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Nov 12, 2017 Courtney Stirrat rated it it was amazing

Shelves: oneofthosebooksyoujusthavetoread, own, modernlit, mystery, women-writers, paperbooksonmyshelves

Resonates remarkably in its description of the beauty and pain of family dynamics and the terrible effects of parents’ lost dream wrought upon their children.

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Dec 26, 2017 Jessica rated it it was amazing

A portrait of a family unraveling after tragedy but looking to the future for a shred of hope. So well written. Concise and beautiful prose.

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Dec 18, 2016 Mary Ellen rated it really liked it

This novel, beginning on the morning that Lydia Lee's family discovers that she has disappeared, travels back and forth in time to reveal the web of secrets, silences and misunderstandings that has shaped their lives.

I was drawn into the book quickly; the author has a compelling style and a gift for brief, telling images. The story, rooted in the father's desire to fit in after a lifetime of discrimination and the mother's desire to stand out and realize thwarted dreams, is both specific to a mo ...more

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