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A haunting debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation. Lydia is deceased. But they don't know this yet.... So begins the storyplot in this lovely debut novel about a Chinese North american family living in a small town in 1970s Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and Adam Lee; their middle princess, a girl who inherited her mother's dazzling blue eye and her father's jet-black head of hair. Her parents are decided that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to go after - in Marilyn's circumstance that her princess become a doctor rather than homemaker, in Adam' circumstance that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy communal life and the guts of every party. When Lydia's body is situated in the neighborhood lake, the sensitive balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets which have been slowly pulling them apart. Adam, consumed by guilt, places out on a reckless path that may destroy his matrimony. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is set to discover a responsible party, no matter what the cost. Lydia's older sibling, Nathan, is for certain a nearby bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it's the youngest of the family, Hannah, who observes a lot more than anyone realizes - and who may be the only person who knows the reality about what happened. A profoundly moving tale of family, background, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Advised You is both a gripping pause-resister and a sensitive family portrait, checking out the divisions between ethnicities and the rifts within a family group and uncovering the ways in which moms and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Category: Asian American