is "Everything I Never Told You," by Celeste Ng.
A Description from NoveList:
"A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home...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."
From Publisher's Weekly:
"When Lydia is discovered dead in a nearby lake, the family begins to fall apart. As the police try to decipher the mystery of Lydia’s death,
her family realize that they didn’t know her at all. Lydia is remarkably imagined, her unhappy teenage life crafted without an ounce of cliché. Ng’s prose is precise and sensitive, her characters richly drawn..."
From Kirkus:
…(the author) expertly explores and exposes the Lee family's secrets: the dreams that have given way to disappointment; the unspoken insecurities, betrayals and yearnings; the myriad ways the Lees have failed to understand one another and, perhaps, themselves..."
Award Winners:
- Alex Award: 2015
- Asian Pacific American Award for Literature: Adult Fiction
- Booklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2014
- Massachusetts Book Awards: Fiction Award
- New York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2014
We will be selecting 2 Contemporary or Literary Fiction books on May 5.
What will our group want to discuss next year!
We will take a look at our last 2 books on Thursday.