Everything I Never Told You (Penguin Press, 2014), by Celeste Ng. 105 quotes from Everything I Never Told You: ‘What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.’.

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One spring day in 1977, Marilyn and James Lee sit down to breakfast with their son, Nath, and youngest daughter, Hannah. Gradually, the Lees realize that their middle daughter, Lydia has not come down for breakfast and, in fact, nobody knows where she is. The police are informed once the children go off to school, and eventually it is discovered that Lydia drowned in the lake nearby the Lee's house.

As the novel opens, the reader sees that Lydia is a mystery to her family just as much as she is a mystery to the reader. Certain things do not add up: Why would Lydia row herself out to the middle of the lake if she cannot swim? Was it Lydia that Hannah heard leaving the house at 2 a.m.? To help answer this question, the narrator takes the reader back to the 1960s, when Marilyn and James met at Harvard when he was a young graduate student teaching a course that Marilyn took. Their love affair seemed to erase their insecurities--his for being Chinese American, hers for being doomed to end up a homemaker like her mother--and Marilyn becomes pregnant with Nath, and she leaves Harvard and her medical school aspirations to marry James and start a family together.