Everything I Never Told You

Lydia’s mother wanted most of all to be special. Lydia’s father wanted most of all to be like everyone else. But both turned out to be impossible—since with James’s Chinese roots and the surname “Li,” they remain outsiders in provincial Ohio. It’s the 1970s, and only a few years have passed since interracial marriages were finally legalized across America. But their daughter Lydia—the favorite of all the children, serious, elf-like beautiful, blue-eyed—will grow up. Lydia will finish school and live out everything her parents dreamed of. She will become a doctor, just as her mother once wanted, and she will break free from that stifling little world… Lydia is dead, and they don’t know it yet. Lydia’s body will be pulled from the local lake; the carefully balanced relationships between her relatives will collapse into dust, and a web of silences and lies that had been quietly tearing the family apart will be revealed.

“All the Things I Didn’t Say” is a gripping psychological drama about family secrets by Celeste Ng—the author of the bestseller “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (and the 2020 adaptation produced by Reese Witherspoon, in which she played one of the main roles).