A Novel
by Celeste Ng
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Waleed Shahid and Judy Blume
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Everything I Never Told You opens with Lydia's death and then inhabits the parents and siblings left behind, moving in close to the small, racially fraught world of 1970s Ohio. Celeste Ng shifts perspective in tight scenes that reveal how expectation, secrecy, and identity shape choices; the reward is gradual emotional clarity rather than neat answers. Main value: finely observed portraits of parental ambition and private grief. Main limitation: pacing favors quiet interior shading over forward-driving plot, which can feel slow to mystery-seeking readers.
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Lydia is dead. But they dont know this yet.So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s smalltown Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydias body is found in the local lake, the delicate bal...
Difficulty:hard
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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