¡°If we know this story, we haven¡¯t seen it yet in American fiction, not until now¡¦ Ng has set two tasks in this novel¡¯s doubled heart?to be exciting, and to tell a story bigger than whatever is behind the crime. She does both by turning the nest of familial resentments into at least four smaller, prickly mysteries full of secrets the family members won¡¯t share¡¦ What emerges is a deep, heartfelt portrait of a family struggling with its place in history, and a young woman hoping to be the fulfillment of that struggle. This is, in the end, a novel about the burden of being the first of your kind-a burden you do not always survive.¡± -Alexander Chee, The New York Times Book Review
¡°Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family, Ng¡¯s explosive debut chronicles the plight of Marilyn and James Lee after their favored daughter is found dead in a lake.¡± -Entertainment Weekly
¡°Excellent¡¦an accomplished debut¡¦ heart-wrenching¡¦Ng deftly pulls together the strands of this complex, multigenerational novel. Everything I Never Told You is an engaging work that casts a powerful light on the secrets that have kept an American family together-and that finally end up tearing it apart.¡± -Los Angeles Times
"Tender and merciless all at once...Vital in all the essential ways." - Jesmyn Ward
¡°Wonderfully moving¡¦Emotionally precise¡¦A beautifully crafted study of dysfunction and grief¡¦[This book] will resonate with anyone who has ever had a family drama.¡± -Boston Globe
¡°A powerhouse of a debut novel, a literary mystery crafted out of shimmering prose and precise, painful observation about racial barriers, the burden of familial expectations, and the basic human thirst for belonging¡¦ Ng¡¯s novel grips readers from page one with the hope of unraveling the mystery behind Lydia¡¯s death-and boy does it deliver, on every front.¡± -Huffington Post
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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.