
Television, magazines, radio: everything feels frivolous in the face of their fear. The family and police begin searching for her immediately. The story begins with the disappearance of Marilyn and James Lee’s ‘favourite’ daughter, Lydia.

How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers.Īnd it is around mothers and fathers that Celeste Ng weaves the intricate story of a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio, in Everything I Never Told You.
