![]() ![]() Because of Lydia’s mother and father, because of her mother’s and father’s mothers and fathers” (Ng 25). Ng writes, “How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. ![]() Ng uses this novel to explore the pressures with which parents weigh their children down, not even knowing they are doing so. They kept one too many secrets from each other and in the end it cost their middle child, Lydia, her life. Their three children stand out as Chinese-Americans in an all white school. ![]() The father, James, is of Chinese heritage, while his wife, Marilyn, is white. They also struggled to fit into a world that didn’t understand them. Set in the 1970’s, the Lees, a family of five, struggle to understand each other. Everything I Never Told Youis a tale of a Chinese-American family in a time when diversity was constantly frowned upon. ![]()
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