The Lees are a Chinese-American family living in small-town Ohio. Their daughter Lydia is the favorite child and her parents want her to fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But everything changes when Lydia's body is found in a lake.
Beautifully written by Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You uncovers the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.