"Cultural issues don't have to be a barrier, but you can't pretend they're not there." - Celeste Ng in HIPPO Reads But they don’t know this yet." -from Everything I Never Told You Writes The New York Times Book Review: "If we know this story, we haven't seen it yet in American fiction, not until now." Achingly, precisely, and sensitively written" (). It explores "alienation, achievement, race, gender, family, and identity-as the police must unravel what has happened to Lydia, the Lee family must uncover the sister and daughter that they hardly knew. A gripping page-turner and striking family portrait, the novel follows a Chinese American family in 1970s small-town Ohio as they try to understand the death of the oldest daughter, Lydia. A graduate of Harvard, she knocked it out of the park with her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Amazon #1 Best Book of 2014 winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Fiction and named a best book of the year by more than a dozen publications, including National Public Radio, Entertainment Weekly, School Library Journal, and The Huffington Post. National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellow Celeste Ng grew up in Pennsylvania and Ohio in a family of scientists. This title will no longer be available for programming after the 2020-21 grant year.
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