Everything I Never Told You

Lydia is dead. But no one knows it yet.

So begins this haunting novel of a Chinese American family in 1970s Ohio, where quiet tensions run beneath the surface of their seemingly ordinary lives. Lydia is Marilyn and James Lee’s beloved middle child—the one they’ve pinned all their hopes on, the one meant to live out the dreams they never could. But when her body is discovered in the lake, the fragile threads holding the family together snap, leaving grief, guilt, and unanswered questions in their wake.

Both a riveting mystery and an intimate portrait, Everything I Never Told You unravels the silences within a family—the things left unsaid between mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives—and how those silences shape the people we become.