5/19/2023 0 Comments I never told you book![]() ![]() Though their three children, James and Marilyn’s vulnerabilities reverberate, and the challenges each face are revealed – being the ‘favourite’ comes at a cost, after all. Because those things had been impossible. It is quickly revealed that Lydia is not missing, but dead, and from there the story moves backwards and forwards in time, the perspective rotating between various key characters to tell how Lydia died.Īlthough the narrative pivots around Lydia, it is dominated by James and Marilyn’s backstories, specifically how James, Chinese, grew up in an Anglo-dominated society, and blonde and blue-eyed Marilyn (desperate to study medicine in a male-dominated world) sought to distinguish herself.īecause more than anything, her mother had wanted to stand out because more than anything, her father had wanted to blend in. Television, magazines, radio: everything feels frivolous in the face of their fear. The family and police begin searching for her immediately. ![]() The story begins with the disappearance of Marilyn and James Lee’s ‘favourite’ daughter, Lydia. ![]() ![]() How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers.Īnd it is around mothers and fathers that Celeste Ng weaves the intricate story of a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio, in Everything I Never Told You. ![]()
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