Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned an 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.
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.
刚看完《无声告白》这本书的时候,并没有什么确切的感受。只是觉得,对于人物的人格和内心的表述,作者把握得十分准确。 然后就没有什么想说的了。 隔了一些日子回想起来才觉得,其实这个故事深深触动了我。 这个故事讲述的是一个最普通的女性的命运。故事的悲剧性在于,有...
评分小说家创作一部作品,经常是有个“引子”的。这个引子,可以是小说家在现实生活中听到的一段话,看到的一个场景,或者闻到了一股熟悉的气味,这些在外人看来根本不会留意的细节,却正正好击中了小说家的创作欲望,此时引子就会变成“种子”,生根发芽,伸枝展叶,最终长出一株...
评分 评分说实话,这不是一本阅读体验很愉悦的书。 开篇,作者就让女主角莉迪亚死了。 一个青春期的美丽女孩,成绩优异,父母兄长疼爱,是什么让她选择了在别人酣睡的深夜走向了湖面,最后落水而死。 故事从莉迪亚的父母开始。一个哈佛华裔学生,家庭赤贫,他靠着天赋一路学霸到了哈佛...
评分说实话,这不是一本阅读体验很愉悦的书。 开篇,作者就让女主角莉迪亚死了。 一个青春期的美丽女孩,成绩优异,父母兄长疼爱,是什么让她选择了在别人酣睡的深夜走向了湖面,最后落水而死。 故事从莉迪亚的父母开始。一个哈佛华裔学生,家庭赤贫,他靠着天赋一路学霸到了哈佛...
Cliché大集锦
评分Can't stop thinking of the beginning of "Lolita”. Just exchange lolita with lydia. "Lydia, light of my life, fire of my loinѕ. My sin, my soul. "
评分典型的创意写作班出来的工匠之作,但我个人还是比较喜欢。奇怪的是,我反而最心疼长子内斯。他洞悉了妹妹的一切痛苦,但却无意中错失了拯救她的机会。他恨着一个爱他的男孩,而他应该永远都不知道。整个家庭的爱与恨都是无声的,却极其残忍。
评分无法融入的时候第一反应是责怪别人不够包容,怕就怕自己总是先别人一步察觉自己的不同,并且把社会的不宽容作为解释一切的理(jie)由(kou)。
评分剧情很抓人,看得很快。但感觉人物性格描写,剧情推进都有点过于样板化。cliche太多了,尤其是关于刻板印象的部分。P.S.点破Jack的暗恋那一段简直,太戳了!导致我后半本书注意力完全没有放在主要剧情上。P.P.S. 我最心疼的是小女儿。
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