From the moment of their marriage in the early 1960s, they've been an oddity to some - most notably Marilyn's mother. For instance, James is the son of Chinese immigrants and Marilyn is white. One of themes of the novel is how being viewed as different (and the subtle cruelty implicit in such narrow-mindedness) can have devastating consequences. Life should be good.īut appearances, in just about every sense of the word, can be deceiving. Their three kids are all well-behaved and academically successful - indeed, oldest son James is about to head off to Harvard. The Lee family lives in a small college town in Ohio where father James is a college professor and mother Marilyn is a homemaker. What we learn is just how subtle, even at times unintentional, cruelty can be and still be devastating.
Lydia is dead, and we spend the next 300 pages finding out what led to this promising teenager's untimely and tragic demise.
From the first line of Celeste Ng's deftly crafted debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, we know something has gone horribly wrong for the Lee family.
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