Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned a MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.

出版者:Penguin Books

作者:Celeste Ng

页数:320

出版时间:2015-5-12

价格:USD 16.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780143127550

图书标签:英文原版小说美国家庭青少年外国文学英语CelesteNg

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 is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. 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.

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读后感

这本书我只看了大半，便兴致勃勃地把这个故事讲给身边的家人和心理咨询的朋友们听，我一遍又一遍不厌其烦地叙述这个故事，还要告诉他们，这本书的开头是从哪里开始的，这故事的结构是如何精巧，作者的叙述是如何高明……而他们每一个人听完我的讲述，都对这本书感兴趣，这足以...  

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用户评价

静水深流

真爱无言，有些话，不必说出口。

自我拯救在意识到错误之后，错误之后是自不量力的自我拯救，更大的错误是死亡。

Not a happy book, didn't offer me closure either.

没有BL线我一定听不下去，结尾结得比较差劲