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.
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Lydia死了,可他们还不知道。 伍绮诗的第一部小说以这两句开头,可谓是用心良苦。“Lydia死了”:故事还未开始,结局就已昭然若揭,却给全篇留下巨大悬念:Lydia是谁?她怎么死的?为何而死?读者将在作者的带领下用一整本书去寻找答案。“可他们还不知道”:看似是...
评分伍绮诗用这本写了6年的这本小说告诉你:喏,这就是家庭,一个带着中国味道的美国家庭。我甚至觉得她在讲述家庭上有了点李安的味道,在看似融洽的生活中却有着无声的忍受,人们愿意因为爱的承诺而妥协、牺牲,会因为害怕失去而顺从。可是,爱的倾斜成为沉重的负担。书中的一些描...
评分莉迪亚死了,被淹死了,在她对自己许下新的承诺,决定重新开始之后。她原以为自己已经克服了一直以来存在于内心的各种恐惧,包括自己不会游泳这一项,所以她跳下木舟,准备横渡湖心,打破旧的,迎来新的。 可她不会游泳,所以她沉在了湖底,开始了无声告白这个故...
评分To be honest I haven't read such an overwhelming novel in ages. Well technically any novels just to be fair. It has everything a thriller should have: A missing/dead girl, a seemingly normal family that had something weird buried in somewhere, a strange b...
三年多前亚马逊猛烈推荐的时候就买了,读完觉得名不副实。写得并不差,有些地方文笔出色,但终究难掩匠气。作者本人的情绪压过了人物的情绪,大约是不少新作者会有的问题,也是普通写作者与大家之间的差距。叙事声音也较为混乱,角度转换时缺乏必要的过渡。考究这些也许对作者要求太高了,我甚至不觉得这本书能算作严肃的文学。
评分是个一般的畅销书套路,但是对于美国的跨种族婚姻不乏一些真知灼见。作为一个中国人在俄亥俄的小城里生活过很久,我只能说所有的描述都有点真实的可怕。对于父母和孩子的关系,父母没有放弃的梦想总会成为孩子的魔。
评分读的超级压抑,写作上的瑕疵很多,特别是Jack根本没好好写啊。早期移民的心理困境和女性职业追求的困顿也有写。但是现在时代已经完全不同了,所以读起来有点Twisted。要学会正确的爱,要进入一个更文明的社会,永远不要把自己做不到的事寄托在别人身上。缄默有时候是最大的伤害,但是说出口的一定会被曲解,Nath Cut self lose那里几乎是被狠狠抽动了一下。学会正确的爱真是太艰难了,有时候我们宁可放弃来逃离羁绊。
评分2014亚马逊editor's pick读后感:世上笨鸟有三种,一种是先飞的,一种是嫌累不飞的。问:那第三种呢? 答:这种最讨厌,自己飞不起來,就在窝里下个蛋,要下一代使劲飞!"
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. "
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