But they don’t know this yet.” On that plot point, the novel pivots. Recall the opening line in Leo Tolstoy’s epic paean to neurotic marriage, Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Well, Leo meet the Lees of Middlewood, Ohio, because the Kareninas have nothing on this perversely unhappy little Chinese-American clan of papa James - he’s the Chinese half of this marital duo - mama Marilyn - she contributes the old-stock Virginia bit - and their bi-racial progeny: son Nathan and daughters Hannah and LydiaĬeleste Ng’s debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, opens with the following line, “Lydia is dead.
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