But it's the youngest of the family-Hannah-who observes far more than anyone realizes and who may be the only one who knows the truth about what happened.

Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is certain that the neighborhood bad boy Jack is somehow involved. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to find a responsible party, no matter what the cost.

James, consumed by guilt, sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James's case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the center of every party. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.'Lydia is dead. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio.

Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” - Entertainment Weekly “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” - O, the Oprah Magazine The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts

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