We will be meeting on Wednesday November 18th to discuss the book Everything I Never Told you by Celste Ng
Here is a review from Amazon:
A teenage girl goes missing and is later found to have drowned in a
nearby lake, and suddenly a once tight-knit family unravels in
unexpected ways. As the daughter of a college professor and his
stay-at-home wife in a small Ohio town in the 1970s, Lydia Lee is
already unwittingly part of the greater societal changes going on all
around her. But Lydia suffers from pressure that has nothing to do with
tuning out and turning on. Her father is an American born of
first-generation Chinese immigrants, and his ethnicity, and hers, make
them conspicuous in any setting. Her mother is white, and their
interracial marriage raises eyebrows and some intrusive charges of
miscegenation. More troubling, however, is her mother’s frustration at
having given up medical school for motherhood, and how she blindly and
selfishly insists that Lydia follow her road not taken. The cracks in
Lydia’s perfect-daughter foundation grow slowly but erupt suddenly and
tragically, and her death threatens to destroy her parents and deeply
scar her siblings. Tantalizingly thrilling, Ng’s emotionally complex
debut novel captures the tension between cultures and generations with
the deft touch of a seasoned writer. Ng will be one to watch.
