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Nov 14, 2023
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Oct 15, 2023chrpha17 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng was such a heartwarming book. It navigates the individual experiences of the Lees, a Chinese-White family including the parents Marilyn and James, and their three kids Lydia, Nath, and Hannah. The…
Sep 28, 2023mw_1234 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
this is probably one of the best (if not the best) books i’ve ever read in my life. this portrait of a grieving family explores each family member’s perspective of loss. ng masterfully weaves each character’s thoughts, experiences, and…
Sep 27, 2023violet_bee_307 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Found the book to be boring at the beginning but by the end I was invested in the characters and began to enjoy it.
Aug 24, 2023VivianKate rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book is so sad but so good. I love Celeste Ng's writing and how she manages to seamlessly make every character's thoughts and feelings weave in and out of the story. This book got me back into reading and I'd read it 100 times again.
Apr 14, 2023CareyMacaulay rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
"America was a melting pot, but Congress, terrified that the molten mixture was becoming a shade too yellow, had banned all immigrants from China. Only the children of those already in the States could enter. So James's father had taken…
Mar 22, 2023HPL_Teen_Volunteer3 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Celeste Ng’s debut novel, “Everything I Never Told You,” is uniquely devastating. The novel’s unique plot was actually what initially drew me to it. The first page of the book already reveals the main conflict of the story: Lydia Lee is…
Feb 09, 2023LPL_LeahN rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
When a teenaged girl dies suddenly under mysterious circumstances, readers are a fly on the wall as the family she leaves behind struggle to dissect the past and somehow face the future without her. Beautifully layered plot and characters,…
Feb 03, 2023mlhadley1 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I read this because I liked another book by this author. It is a dark and, to me, depressing story as how the parents interact with their children. I couldn't give them a full pass because of their situation of an Asian and Caucasion…
Jan 24, 2023Danielle Izzard rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Celeste Ng’s work is often described as compelling and moving, and Everything I Never Told You shows us why. Ng has crafted a deep and complex story about family affairs and teenage secrecy that is filled to the brim with love. Characters…
Jan 09, 2023joyful2743 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
This is a story about a very disfunctional family. There are issues with a biracial marriage and the mystery of why the oldest daughter drowned in the lake.
Jan 07, 2023TheVioletAlchemist rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Everything I Never Told You follows a mixed-race family as they navigate the aftermath of a daughter’s death, years of damaging parental expectations, and the journey toward healing. This is a heartfelt book capable of drawing you into the…
Dec 01, 2022Bookworm1136 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
4 1/2 stars. I believe this was Ng's debut novel and I am finally reading it now. The book begins with the sentences. Lydia is dead but they don't know this yet." Lydia is the teenage daughter of James and Marilyn Lee. She's the girl…
Nov 20, 2022ekhdong rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Good. Heartbreaking
Oct 09, 2022PDBurt rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
A 'Who done it' with woes of dysfunctional family. Not my preference of writing style or subject matter.
Sep 27, 2022
This is a beautiful and heartbreaking portrait of a 1970’s mixed race family. Lydia is at the center of the story, as she is at the center of all of their lives. Despite being the middle child, her parents pin their hopes on her; her…
Sep 06, 2022Russ_A rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I read Ng’s second book five years ago and found this one to have the same strengths and weaknesses. It begins with a mystery. Lydia, a teenage girl, drowns in a lake one evening, apparently alone. Was it an accident? A murder? A suicide?…
Sep 04, 2022JudyHeyworth2 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Well written, heart wrenching and thought provoking
Aug 07, 2022jillybee72 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
What an amazing book! All of the characters are written with such empathy, and the struggle of a family through the worst event of their lives is gripping to read.
Jul 23, 2022Cidherman rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU is the story of a family struggling to cope with a tragedy. Set in the seventies, a couple in a mixed race marriage are raising three children in a bedroom community in Ohio. Their oldest son is in his last…
Feb 25, 2022CMLibrary_lharvey rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is actually my favorite book of all time. Celeste Ng does an incredible job of telling the story while simultaneously writing backwards to inform the reader of what happened in the past. I can't say enough good things about how this…
Dec 26, 2021Crave83 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 297 pages Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Family Featuring: Death, Racism, Sex, Stage Parenting, Rating as a movie: R for mature themes and content…
Sep 06, 2021sgcf rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Ng’s well-written book absorbed me as she explored the problems underlying the calm surface of a Chinese-American family in the 1950s – 70s. She builds solid characters whose undoing is a lack of honest communication amongst themselves…
Jul 20, 2021molly rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
It is not usually the story that grabs me, it is the writing. This writing is just marvellous. This author has a gift.
Jun 30, 2021
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