Everything I Never Told You Summary

Teaser: The beginning of the novel Everything I Never Told You, speaks on an uncommon Chinese American family living in a small town in Ohio during the 1970s. Their middle child Lydia is the favorite of her parents James and Marilyn Lee, she is the child that inherited her dad's jet black hair and her moms dazzling blue eyes. Lydia's parents are adamant that she will accomplish the goals and dreams that they weren't able to follow. In James case her father, he wants Lydia to be popular at school,the person the center of attention at every party and event, and the girl with a hectic social life. In her mother's case,Marilyn positions that Lydia instead of becoming homemaker that she goes off to college to become a doctor. Once Lydia is found in the lake near by, her being the balance that keeps the family somewhat stable is demolished, scrambling the Lee Family into utterchaos. The father, eaten by guilt, begins to seek out an reckless path that could potentially destroy him and his marriage. The mother, hurt and angry, is determined to find the person that is responsible for her daughter's

The beginning of the novel, Lydia disappeared from her Ohio home, something the family learns when she's not in her bedroom nor at the table for breakfast.Being the middle child to a troubling family, Lydia tries to take on the role of her mother and father's unaccomplished dreams as if they are her own. Faking a hunger for science that her mother wants her to have and pushing herself to study, Lydia embraces that unlike her mother she will be the doctor that her blonde hair, blue eyed mother did not. Lonely and depressed at the same time she imitates the social life her father James, the problematic son of an Chinese immigrant dreamt of. In 1977 near her 16th Birthday, the stress will become too much to bear, and Lydia will be dead. The question that floats throughout the book is “Who is