This is, in the end, a novel about the burden of being the first of your kind-a burden you do not always survive.” - ALEXANDER CHEE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWĪn aspect of genre and theme “From the first sentence of Celeste Ng’s stunning debut, we know that the oldest daughter of the Chinese-American Lee family has died. She does both by turning the nest of familial resentments into at least four smaller, prickly mysteries full of secrets the family members won’t share… What emerges is a deep, heartfelt portrait of a family struggling with its place in history, and a young woman hoping to be the fulfillment of that struggle. Thus, both praise and criticism of Everything I Never Told You are showed readers are also able to browse the reviews from different angles here.Īn aspect of plots “If we know this story, we haven’t seen it yet in American fiction, not until now… Ng has set two tasks in this novel’s doubled heart-to be exciting, and to tell a story bigger than whatever is behind the crime. Even so, criticism is a critical part to make a writer progress in the writing career. Therefore, the attractive plots are also an important factor that the novel gets overwhelming praise. Ng subtly divides the plots into two parts: past and present, and leads readers to explore the dead causes of a young Chinese-American girl, Lydia. The novel has gotten so much praise because its diversified topics and theme and its reflections of social problems in the 1970s. “A subtle meditation on gender, race and the weight of one generation’s unfulfilled ambitions upon the shoulders – and in the heads – of the next.” - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEĪs a debut novel by Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You topped Amazon’s Best Book list of 2014. A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers.Internal Migration and Internally Displaced Peoples.
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