Everything I Never Told You by Celeste NgMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Reading about the death of a teen and the effect on her family should be depressing. And it sort of was but I enjoyed the subtlety Ng used when explaining the dynamic as of a family, the pressures of what we think people think, and our desires to fit in, or stand out, sometimes simultaneously. Perhaps most affecting was the investigation of how our parents pushed their hopes and dreams on us, and then how we do the same to our children, sometimes without us knowing. Ng explores race relations very intimately here, and as a result allows those feelings to be universally understood. Beautiful, hopeful, enlightening.
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