Everything I never told you

"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. 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. 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. 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. James consumed by guilt sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn devastated and vengeful is determined to find a responsible party no matter what the cost. Lydia's older brother Nathan is certain that the neighborhood bad boy Jack is somehow involved. 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. A profoundly moving story of family history and the meaning of home Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait exploring the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family and uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters fathers and sons and husbands and wives struggle all their lives to understand one another." --