![]() ![]() He wanted nothing more than to fit in after years of bullying and isolation from his peers. James, who was an Asian teacher, had a dream of working for Harvard. She was driven to become a successful doctor and stand out among the other male doctors. Marilyn, an ambitious white woman in the 1970s wanted to be more than a pretty face in the crowd. Marilyn and James’ love set in stone Lydia’s death. It was a heartfelt portrait of a family trying to find its place in the world and unresolved regrets and history. The author splendidly tied parental pressure, school, and isolation together by stringing it with a series of events that eventually led up to Lydia’s death. ![]() It shows how eventually every little action we do at the expense of another person’s happiness accumulates to one moment that changes everything. It portrayed an in-depth examination of a mix-race family struggles and how a young woman decides to take on the burden of the struggles. ![]() This discovery shook the Lee’s household and set off a chained of arguments and questions between Lydia’s mother and father, Marilyn Lee and James Lee. She was found in the town’s lake, her body deteriorated and barely recognizable. When I first opened this book, Ng immediately established that Lydia Lee, the protagonist, was dead. Reading “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng brought me the honor of learning about the art of writing and connecting gender, race and the weight of one generation unfulfilled ambitions upon the shoulders of the next in the setting of a 1970s small town. ![]()
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