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This American
shaped building was
as a political symbol of the
A tea party held in the U.S. Capitol in honor of America's Centennial, 1875, in this engraving,
the senator from Missouri is standing at the tea table on the left
encompasses the methods of preparation and means of consumption of
within the context of the .
American restaurants and workplaces typically offer machine-made
by default, while hot tea brewed by the cup with , an American invention, is available by request. Tea has played an important role in the United States, as families tend to gather around the kitchen and tea is often served here. Although many may equate tea to grandmothers, tea drinking is popular with all ages. Tea parties can be celebrated for many occasions, from the very small and intimate to the large family gatherings and celebrations. Tea can be served at dawn, early morning, midday, or whenever tea is desired. In the , pre-brewed, chilled, and sweetened tea, a regional favorite called , may be served at all meals and throughout the day as an alternate to other beverages. In the , about 85% of the tea consumed is served cold, or iced. Iced tea is more frequently consumed during periods of hot weather or in lower latitudes, and hot tea is likewise more common in colder weather. Any confusion when one is visiting different parts of the country can easily be solved by explicitly asking for either "hot tea" or "iced tea." , as a meal, is rarely served in the U.S. except in ritualized special occasions such as the
or an afternoon out at a high-end hotel or restaurant, which may also offer
on their menu.
holds a silver teapot he has made
Advertisement of a Boston tea shop in 1811 listing teas for sale
The American Tea culture
is a part of the history of the United States, as this beverage appeals to all classes and has adapted to the customs of the United States of America. In the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now known as New York, tea was served with the best silver strainers, the finest porcelain cups and pots, and wooden tea caddies. Tea became a very popular drink in the colonies, and tea ceremonies were common among all classes. In Salem, MA, tea leaves were boiled to create a bitter brew, then served as a vegetable side dish with butter. By the time of the , tea was drunk everywhere from the backwoods to the cities.
However, tea and tea taxes became a bone of contention between the
and . This led to the 1773 , a precipitating event of the Revolution, when angry Colonists destroyed the tea cargo of three British ships by dumping them into . As a consequence, tea drinking became .
of tea led to an increase in consumption of other beverages, such as
infused with ,
To this day, coffee remains more popular than tea in the United S however the U.S. still consumed 7.8 gallons of tea
annually. While
is by far more popular, hot brewed black tea is enjoyed both with meals and as a refreshment by much of the population. Similarly,
is consumed throughout. In the
states , sweetened with large amounts of sugar or an artificial sweetener and chilled, is the fashion. Outside the Southeast, sweet tea is sometimes found, but primarily because of cultural migration and commercialization.[]
The American specialty tea market has quadrupled in the years from , now being worth $6.8 billion a year. Similar to the trend of better coffee and better wines, this tremendous increase was partly due to consumers who choose to trade up. Specialty
and retailers also started to pop up during this period.
The American Tea Masters Association was founded to provide Mastery Level training, education, and professional certification to individuals desiring to become tea masters and tea sommeliers.
Iced tea, popular throughout the U.S.
Main article:
Iced tea is usually prepared from .[] In addition to tea bags and loose tea, powdered "instant iced tea mix" is available in stores. This is made by preparing tea and then dehydrating it, similar to . Iced tea can be purchased, like soda, in canned or bottled form at vending machines an usually, this pre-made tea is sweetened with , and sometimes some other flavoring, such as lemon or raspberry, is added. Also, like other , it can be purchased as a , though in some establishments it is pumped from a , and in others, it is simply poured from a separate container that contains freshly brewed tea.
In restaurants, iced tea is usually served unsweetened except in the Southeastern
where iced tea is much more common and is available both sweet and unsweetened and "iced tea" is often considered to be "" unless otherwise specified. The reason for the presweetening is that it may be difficult to dissolve sugar in iced tea, even with constant stirring. The result can be insufficiently sweetened tea and/or gritty, undissolved sugar crystals in the tea. Some restaurants have begun serving iced tea that has been pre-flavored with fruit essences, particularly , often as the only iced tea made available.
Iced tea's popularity in the United States has led to an additi the
is a standard flatware , but with a long handle, suitable for stirring sugar into the taller glasses commonly used for iced tea.
Tea bags were invented in the United States
Thomas Sullivan is credited with inventing
in 1908. Sullivan, a New York tea importer, inadvertently invented tea bags when he sent tea samples to clients in small
bags to cut costs, and they mistakenly
the bags whole.
The customers were more interested in the brewing convenience of the novel silk bags than his bulk teas. Sullivan did not realize this until they all started to complain that the orders they received were not in the same small bags the samples had been in. Silk was too expensive f therefore, he invented tea bags made of . The tea bag made of paper fiber was a later American invention.
The nylon pyramidal teabag containing broken teas and semi-leaf teas made an appearance in the marketplace for aficionados. The pyramidal shape - it is said - allows more room for the leaf to steep. Environmentalists prefer silk to nylon because of the health and biodegradable issues.
Most tea sold in the United States is sold in bags, although there is a sharply growing demand by consumers for both the
USA introduced the first instant tea, . Instant teas are produced from black tea by extracting the liquor from processed portion of tea typically from green tea in a smaller proportion has traditionally been used by the instant tea makers as a "clarification agent" - again, in effort to maximize the clarity of color and minimize off-colors created by certain teas that cloud. The extract is concentrated under low pressure, and drying the concentrate to a powder by freeze-drying, spray-drying, or vacuum-drying. Low temperatures tend to be used to minimize loss of flavor. The American market for instant tea powders, which developed quickly following Nestle's introduction, has slackened off considerably over the past quarter century, as Americans have more and more turned to naturally icing their favorite loose teas, as well as preparing iced tea from tea bags, and to ready-to-drink iced teas where the smaller sizes are found in the supermarkets' refrigerated drinks sections and the larger gallon sizes are found in the supermarkets' non-refrigerated drinks sections.
became difficult to find in the United States and even
had become uncommon because of the 's ban on exports to the USA which was lifted in 1971. After the resumption of trade between mainland China and the USA, these teas typical to China re-entered the American market for the first time since the first two decades of the 20th century.
In the early 1980s, a mini-revival of demand for better quality teas from all origins occurred in the United States. Prior to this time, much of the tea available in 20th century USA was
specifically for gallon and half-gallon sized iced tea bags, with the quality of not "creaming down" (a creamy looking color that imparts to some teas after cooling down) when ice "clear-liquoring" teas were required.
Most iced tea blends in the USA have traditionally been made from the teas of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Argentina and Malawi. Even though there is no correlation between the quality of cloudy teas versus clear teas, clear iced teas were considered more attractive by the consumer.
A recent rise in the demand for
in both gallon and half-gallon iced tea bags, as well as 500 and 1,000 gram loose tea packs has caused manufacturers to reinstate orthodox manufacturing methods. This is a departure from the more common Sri Lankan, Indonesian, Argentinian and other nations' orthodox
tea-making method which has limitations and can not produce whole leaf black tea. The rotorvane method was adopted primarily to satisfy the demand for the smaller leaf sizes that fit into small (1-2 gram) tea bag blends worldwide starting in the early 20th century.
A tea shop in Covington, Kentucky selling and serving whole leaf bulk teas and teaware, 2007
Further information:
Currently, there is a revival of interest in the many varieties of
throughout the United States. Additionally, other exotic teas (such as the vast variety of African, Asian and South American teas) and different brewing styles are becoming more commonplace. Teas from all origins and elevations, made in all methods of manufacture, are popular in the USA, a tea market which has traditionally been more flexible and willing to try new types of drinks than tea markets throughout the old world.
In the USA, there has been a marked shift back to selling teas by single origins, under the name of the actual tea factory's registered export trademark(s) at the tea-producing origins - more and more, the consumer is fascinated by the exotic-sounding garden and factory trademarks and their frequently colorful histories at the tea-producing origins.
tea is widely available in the United States, for those who wish to reduce the physiological effects of . There are many who are aware that the sales trend for decaf teas in the USA has shown a decreasing curve in demand at retail over the past 20 years, yet the high price of decaf remains unchanged. The reasons are twofold.
Not only is decaf tea more expensive than non-decaf tea, the processes of decaffeinating that is commonly used depletes a great deal of the flavor out of the tea. The teas with the highest caffeine content fall far below the coffees with the lowest caffeine content. In this light, and considering that most people would prefer to buy better quality teas rather than the less flavorful decaf teas, the American consumer has been buying decaf tea slightly less in recent years. For those who are caffeine intolerant, however, the invention of decaffeinated tea has been welcomed as a refreshing and tasty alternative to caffeinated beverages.
added (usually while the tea is still hot from brewing), the mixture then being cooled with ice, is ubiquitous in the Southeastern
. In these states, when a person says "tea", they normally mean sweetened iced tea. The unsweetened variant is often called "unsweet" tea instead of unsweetened or plain. The consumption of sweet tea with many meals leads to it sometimes called the "table wine of the South" and this trait is considered an important marker of the . Southern sweet tea is made by brewing tea at double strength, adding a large amount of sugar to the freshly brewed hot tea, and diluting to the proper strength. It is served over a glass full of ice cubes and is often garnished with a slice of lemon. While
is commonly used as a sweetener for commercially manufactured tea, more often consumers are unaware of this, and when made at home, refined
and the , "tea" generally means the hot beverage and iced tea is referred to by name.
Sun tea brewing
Sun tea is frequently brewed in temperate areas by placing tea and room-temperature water together in a glass jar left outdoors in direct sunlight. Steeping times are necessarily long, two to four hours. Tea may also be brewed with no heat at all by simply immersing the tea bags or infuser in room-temperature water and allowing a period of several hours (typically overnight) for steeping. Since sun brewing occurs in a temperature range that can promote the development of bacteria, particularly , the
and the Tea Association of the U.S.A. Inc. suggest storing sun-brewed tea in the refrigerator, and discarding it after 24 hours.
The so-called
usu it is an alcoholic
that looks like and (if made correctly) tastes similar to iced tea. A variant recipe uses actual iced tea as a mixer and is named after a professional golfer. The drink, , contains iced or sweet tea, and vodka and is based on the
which contains half iced tea and half lemonade.
Tea & coffee warehouse advertisement listing teas for sale in the Boston Almanac, 1856, described as a 13 year old business supplying "families, hotel keepers, boarding houses, ship's use, and schools"
Interior view of the Oriental Tea Company store of Boston, 1800s
In this advertisement from 1897, , a Boston company that claims to be the first to can coffee, also dealt in imported tea, here a packaged tea from
Sylvia Sweets Tea Room, corner of School and Main streets, Brockton, Mass., 1940–41
, Chicago based chain of tea cafés
, founded in 1945 in Connecticut with a tea blended with orange and spices, family owned
, pioneering American herbal tea company founded in Colorado, 1969
, a teapot shaped building made in 1938, and billed as "world's largest" to represent a local pottery industry
, named by an English-American tea merchant in 1843 in New York City
, began in 1859 as a tea and coffee dealer in New York, became a giant supermarket chain
, a children's song from 1939 and a related dance
, a Louisiana-based tea company that introduced an iced tea blend in 1932
, distributor of exotic loose teas in America starting in the early 1990s
, a tea company founded in Montreal, that built a headquarters in Boston in 1917
, a former American museum of more than 6,000 teapots, closed a few years after a funding controversy
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Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins the&story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese&American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio.&Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James L&their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her&mother’s bright blue eyes and her father’s jet-black&hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will&fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue—in&Marilyn’s case that her daughter become a doctor&rather than a homemaker, in James’s case that Lydia&be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and&the center of every party.
When Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the&delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee&family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to&confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly&pulling them apart. James, consumed by guilt, sets&out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage.&Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to&find a responsible party, no matter what the cost.&Lydia’s older brother, Nathan, is certain that the&neighborhood bad boy Jack is somehow involved.&But it’s the youngest of the family—Hannah—who&observes far more than anyone realizes and who&may be the only one who knows the truth about&what happened.
A profoundly moving story of family, history,&and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You&is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family&portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures&and the rifts within a family, and uncovering the&ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and&sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives,&to understand one another.
Editorial Reviews
The New York Times Book Review
- Alexander
…a literary thriller that begins with some stock elements: a missing girl, a lake, a local bad boy who was one of the last to see her and won't say what he knows…a quiet all-American town in Ohio, where everyone knows one another and nothing like this has ever happened before. This is familiar territory, but Ng returns to it to spin an unfamiliar tale, with a very different kind of girl from the ones we've been asked to follow before. If we know this story, we haven't seen it yet in American fiction, not until now…Ng has structured Everything I Never Told You so we shift between the family's theories and Lydia's own story, and what led to her disappearance and death, moving toward the final, devastating conclusion. 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. This is, in the end, a novel about the burden of being the first of your kind—a burden you do not always survive.
Publishers Weekly★ 04/14/2014
This emotionally involving debut novel explores themes of belonging using the story of the death of a teenage girl, Lydia, from a mixed-race family in 1970s Ohio. Lydia is the middle and favorite child of Marilyn Walker, a white Virginian, and James Lee, a first-generation Chinese-American. Marilyn and James meet in 1957, when she is a premed at Radcliffe and he, a graduate student, is teaching one of her classes. The two fall in love and marry, over the objections of Marilyn’s mother, whose comment on their interracial relationship is succinct: “It’s not right.” Marilyn gets pregnant and gives up her dream of becoming a doctor, devoting her life instead to raising Lydia and the couple’s other two children, Nathan and Hannah. Then Marilyn abruptly moves out of their suburban Ohio home to go back to school, only to return before long. When Lydia is discovered dead in a nearby lake, the family begins to fall apart. As the police try to decipher the mystery of Lydia’s death, her family realize that they didn’t know her at all. Lydia is remarkably imagined, her unhappy teenage life crafted without an ounce of cliché. Ng’s prose is precise and sensitive, her characters richly drawn. Agent: Julie Barer, Barer Literary. (July)
Entertainment Weekly
- Sara Vilkomerson
When Lydia Lee, the favored daughter in a mixed-race family in '70s Ohio, turns up dead, the Lees' delicate ecosystem is destroyed. Her parents' marriage unravels, her brother is consumed by vengeance, and her sister—always an afterthought—hovers nervously, knowing more than anyone realizes. Ng skillfully gathers each thread of the tragedy, uncovering secrets and revealing poignant answers. Grade: A-.
Boston GlobeWonderfully moving…Emotionally precise…A beautifully crafted study of dysfunction and grief…[The book] will resonate with anyone who has ever had a family drama.
MORE magazineWith the skill of a veteran heart surgeon…Ng writes of maternal expectations, ingrained prejudice and sibling conflict in a culture that has just begun to grapple with interracial marriage and shifting gender roles.
Bustle[A] haunting debut…Ng is a gifted storyteller but an even more gifted character-builder…A powerful book about how those left behind must learn to go on living.
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Alexander Chee, The New York Times Book Review:
“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. 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. This is, in the end, a novel about the burden of being the first of your kind—a burden you do not always survive.”
Los Angeles Times:
“Excellent…an accomplished debut… heart-wrenching…Ng deftly pulls together the strands of this complex, multigenerational novel. Everything I Never Told You is an engaging work that casts a powerful light on the secrets that have kept an American family together—and that finally end up tearing it apart.”
Boston Globe:
“Wonderfully moving…Emotionally precise…A beautifully crafted study of dysfunction and grief…[This book] will resonate with anyone who has ever had a family drama.”
San Francisco Chronicle:
“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… Ng deftly and convincingly illustrates the degree to which some miscommunications can never quite be&rectified.”
O, The Oprah Magazine:
“Cleverly crafted, emotionally perceptive… Ng sensitively dramatizes issues of gender and race that lie at the heart of the story… Ng’s themes of assimilation are themselves deftly interlaced into a taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.”&
Los Angeles Review of Books:
“Ng moves gracefully back and forth in time, into the aftermath of the tragedy as well as the distant past, and into the consciousness of each member of the family, creating a series of mysteries and revelations that lead back to the original question: what happened to Lydia?...Ng is masterful in her use of the omniscient narrator, achieving both a historical distance and visceral intimacy with each character’s struggles and failures…On the surface, Ng’s storylines are nothing new. There is a mysterious death, a family pulled apart by misunderstanding and grief, a struggle to fit into the norms of society, yet in the weaving of these threads she creates a work of ambitious complexity. In the end, this novel movingly portrays the burden of difference at a time when difference had no cultural value…Compelling.”
Entertainment Weekly:
“Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family, Ng’s explosive debut chronicles the plight of Marilyn and James Lee after their favored daughter is found dead in a lake.”
Marie Claire:
“The mysterious circumstances of 16-year-old Lydia Lee’s tragic death have her loved ones wondering how, exactly, she spent her free time. This ghostly debut novel calls to mind The Lovely Bones.”
Huffington Post:
“A powerhouse of a debut novel, a literary mystery crafted out of shimmering prose and precise, painful observation about racial barriers, the burden of familial expectations, and the basic human thirst for belonging… Ng’s novel grips readers from page one with the hope of unraveling the mystery behind Lydia’s death—and boy does it deliver, on every front.”
Chris Schluep, Parade:
“The first chapter of Celeste Ng’s debut novel is difficult—the oldest daughter in a family is dead—but what follows is a brilliantly written, surprisingly uplifting exploration of striving in the face of alienation and of the secrets we keep from others. This could be my favorite novel of the year.”
Kevin Nguyen, Grantland:
“The emotional core of Celeste Ng’s debut is what sets it apart. The different ways in which the Lee family handles Lydia’s death create internal friction, and most impressive is the way Ng handles racial politics. With a deft hand, she loads and unpacks the implications of being the only Chinese American family in a small town in Ohio.”
Cleveland Plain-Dealer:
“Beautiful and poignant…. deftly drawn….It’s hard to believe that this is a debut novel for Celeste Ng. She tackles the themes of family dynamics, gender and racial stereotyping, and the weight of expectations, all with insight made more powerful through understatement. She has an exact, sophisticated touch with her prose. The sentences are straightforward. She evokes emotions through devastatingly detailed observations.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
“Perceptive…a skillful and moving portrayal of a family in pain…It is to Ng’s credit that it is sometimes difficult for the
the pain and unhappiness is palpable. But it is true to the Lees, and Ng tells all.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
“Impressive… In its evocation of a time and place and society largely gone but hardly forgotten, Everything I Never Told You tells much that today’s reader should learn, ponder and appreciate.”
The Missourian:
“Quiet and intense…A family drama that reveals its secrets slowly, drawing you in."
Dallas Morning News:
“Powerful…[A] beautifully crafted story of a family in pain, and the many reasons, personal and societal, that the Lees have lived most of their lives as strangers to one another. Making us care so deeply about her characters is Ng’s triumph.”
Ann Arbor Observer:
“Deeply moving…masterful…[Ng] doesn’t give her characters any easy futures or her readers any false hope.”
MORE magazine:&
“With the skill of a veteran heart surgeon…Ng writes of maternal expectations, ingrained prejudice and sibling conflict in a culture that has just begun to grapple with interracial marriage and shifting gender roles.”
Time Out New York:
“[A] tender debut…The novel touches on the myriad paths grief may take, the secrets everyone keeps and how much a tragedy can affect relationships in a family.”
Sara Vilkomerson, Entertainment Weekly:
“When Lydia Lee, the favored daughter in a mixed-race family in ‘70s Ohio, turns up dead, the Lees’ delicate ecosystem is destroyed. Her parents’ marriage unravels, her brother is consumed by vengeance, and her sister—always an afterthought—hovers nervously, knowing more than anyone realizes. Ng skillfully gathers each thread of the tragedy, uncovering secrets and revealing poignant answers. Grade: A-.”
“[A] moving tale… of daughters for whom cultural disconnect is but the first challenge.”
“[A] haunting debut…Ng is a gifted storyteller but an even more gifted character-builder…A powerful book about how those left behind must learn to go on living.”
Amanda Nelson, Book Riot:
“On the surface, this is about a mixed-race Asian-American family dealing with and trying to solve the mysterious death of their favorite teenaged daughter in ‘70s Ohio (this isn’t a spoiler, it happens in the first sentence). What it’s really about all the ways we can be an ‘other’—in society, in our own marriages, in our jobs, and to our parents or children. It’s also about pressure—the pressure to be with people who are like ourselves, and to fit in, and to be everything our parents want us to be. It’s about giving up your career to become a wife and mother, and what that means and doesn’t mean. It’s about dealing with prejudice. It’s about secrets and happiness and misery, and all the things we never tell the people we love. It’s about everything, is what I’m saying, and not a single word is wasted or superfluous.”
Publishers Weekly (starred):
“This emotionally involving debut novel explores themes of belonging using the story of the death of a teenage girl, Lydia, from a mixed-race family in 1970s Ohio…Lydia is remarkably imagined, her unhappy teenage life crafted without an ounce of cliché. Ng’s prose is precise and sensitive, her characters richly drawn.”
Library Journal (starred):
“Ng constructs a mesmerizing narrative that shrinks enormous issues of race, prejudice, identity, and gender into the miniaturist dynamics of a single family. A breathtaking triumph, reminiscent of prophetic debuts by Ha Jin, Chang-rae Lee, and -Chimamanda Adichie, whose first titles matured into spectacular, continuing literary legacies.”
Booklist (starred):
“Tantalizingly thrilling, Ng’s emotionally complex debut novel captures the tension between cultures and generations with the deft touch of a seasoned writer. Ng will be one to watch.”
Kirkus Reviews:
“Ng expertly explores and exposes the Lee family’s secrets… These long-hidden, quietly explosive truths, weighted by issues of race and gender, slowly bubble to the surface of Ng’s sensitive, absorbing novel and reverberate long after its final page. Ng’s emotionally complex debut novel sucks you in like a strong current and holds you fast until its final secrets surface.”
Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award-winning author of&Salvage the Bones:
“Ng tells a story weighted by death and grief that is vital in al these characters betray and love blindly and are needy and accuse and forgive. They are achingly human, and Ng's writing about them is tender and merciless all at once. At the same time, her story is also about what it means to live in two worlds at the same time, to be Asian and American, an insider and an outsider, and Ng writes about all this and more with terrific nuance.”
Uwem Akpan, #1&New York Times&bestselling author of&Say You’re One of Them:
“I couldn’t stop reading Everything I Never Told You . . . the writing is so smooth and keenly observed. The portrait of each member of the Lee family, the exploration of their mixed-race issues and the search for the killer of their sister and daughter, Lydia, pulled at my heartstrings to the very end.”
Dan Chaon, author of&Await Your Reply:
"Everything I Never Told You is a suspenseful and emotionally complex literary mystery novel, which, weaving back and forth in time, unlocks the secrets beneath the surface of family life. Celeste Ng has written a compellingly tense and moving first book."
Ru Freeman, author of&On Sal Mal Lane and&A Disobedient Girl:
"Celeste Ng leavens the bridge between the disappearance of a young girl, and the personal histories that precede it, with the larger canvas issues of race and gender, without straying from the riveting emotional territory that make up the cornerstones of family: what is given, what is withheld, and what can never be known. Lydia Lee is every parent's dream, fear, and devastation, wholly loved, just as completely lost. It is impossible to resist grieving alongside each one of these bereft, deeply realized characters, for we live their lives, and their story becomes ours from the first paragraph of this marvelous book."
Book Passage (Corte Madera, CA):
“More than a simple portrait of love and loss, this is a beautiful and haunting story of a lost teenage girl attempting to discover her own voice.”
Kirkus Reviews
Ng's nuanced debut novel begins with the death of a teenage girl and then uses the mysterious circumstances of her drowning as a springboard to dive into the troubled waters beneath the calm surface of her Chinese-American family.When 16-year-old Lydia Lee fails to show up at breakfast one spring morning in 1977, and her body is later dragged from the lake in the Ohio college town where she and her biracial family don't quite fit in, her parents—blonde homemaker Marilyn and Chinese-American history professor James—older brother and younger sister get swept into the churning emotional conflicts and currents they've long sought to evade. What, or who, compelled Lydia—a promising student who could often be heard chatting
was dot and enjoyed an especially close relationship with her Harvard-bound brother, Nath—to slip away from home and venture out in a rowboat late at night when she had always been deathly afraid of water, refusing to learn to swim? The surprising answers lie deep beneath the surface, and Ng, whose stories have won awards including the Pushcart Prize, keeps an admirable grip on the narrative's many strands as she expertly explores and exposes the Lee family's secrets: the dreams that have given w the unspoken insecurities, bet the myriad ways the Lees have failed to understand one another and, perhaps, themselves. These long-hidden, quietly explosive truths, weighted by issues of race and gender, slowly bubble to the surface of Ng's sensitive, absorbing novel and reverberate long after its final page.Ng's emotionally complex debut novel sucks you in like a strong current and holds you fast until its final secrets surface.
Library Journal★ 05/01/2014
Ng's debut is one of those aching stories about which the reader knows so much more than any of the characters, even as each yearns for the unknowable truth. "Lydia is dead," the novel opens—blunt, unnerving, devastating. She's only 16, the middle of three children of James and Marilyn Lee, a mixed-race couple married years before the ironically named Loving v. Virginia finally invalidated U.S. antimiscegenation laws in 1967. They're initially drawn together by their differences: James, the American-born son of Chinese immigrants, finishing his Harvard PhD; Marilyn, the only Radcliffe undergraduate determined to become a doctor, a gifted scientist among unbelieving men. When they bury their daughter in 1977, the Lee family—already fragile before the tragedy—implodes. James detaches, Marilyn seeks refuge, brother Nath blames, and youngest Hannah silently watches all. Each will search for a Lydia who doesn't exist, desperate to parse what happened. VERDICT Ng constructs a mesmerizing narrative that shrinks enormous issues of race, prejudice, identity, and gender into the miniaturist dynamics of a single family. A breathtaking triumph, reminiscent of prophetic debuts by Ha Jin, Chang-rae Lee, and Chimamanda Adichie, whose first titles matured into spectacular, continuing literary legacies. [See Prepub Alert, 12/16/13.]—Terry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC
Average Rating 4
Everything I Never Told You is a book about race, death, love, l
Everything I Never Told You is a book about race, death, love, lies, prejudice, academia, and family. This might have had the best first line of any book I have read this year: &Lydia is dead, but they don&t know this yet.& Lydia is the middle child, the favorite child. Her death throws the delicate balance of this mixed race family living in 1970s in Ohio, into a quandary. They must face the things that have been driving them apart.I have to admit that this book is something I might not have chosen for myself to read. I missed all the hype about it and only learned about it on Goodreads, as it was the latest pick in the Ford Audiobook Club. This book has been featured in a lot of places. It made the list of Amazon&s Best Books of the Year so far 2014. Being a debut novel, this is really impressive. Now that I have read the book, I can see why.This book is so well written. The characters each have a story to tell, secrets to reveal and surprises in their tales for the reader. The time period, 1970s, was such a good choice for this novel. Being part of a mixed race family, (Chinese-American), in a time when mixed couples were being arrested, was very bold. The mother, Madelyn, is white. She wanted to be a doctor in a era when women did not become doctors. She became pregnant early in her academia and then had to settle for being a stay-at-home-mom. James, the father, is a Chinese childhood immigrant. James teaches American History at a college in Ohio. There is a bit of irony there, since all James wants is to fit in as an American. Their relationship is so strained. They bond because they both know what it is like to be different. They both have unfulfilled dreams.Lydia is the child that mixes both races. She is the one they project all of their aspirations on. A blue eyed Chinese girl, pretty and smart enough to make all of her parent&s dreams come true. Lydia is a bundle angst. Her deepest wish to please her mother and father, both in their own ways, leaves her a shell.There is a big brother, Nath, and a little sister, Hannah. They each have interesting stories that are revealed in this book as well. Reading this book, I couldn&t help feeling like I was peeling back layers to reveal the people in this family as they really are. In the midst of the investigation into how Lydia ended up in the water, this family is made to face their deepest feelings for each other. The feelings missing and the ones they don&t want to admit to. By the time we get into learning about the real Lydia, we can see why she could never have lived up to the challenge her parents set before her.I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to be moved by a story. The author&s descriptive style was such a delight to get immersed in. I could see, feel, hear, and touch the narrative. The style of writing is the best I have read all year. The subject and revelations were brutal and hard to digest. Just like real life there was much more than meets the eye to these characters, and this book.
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One of three children born to interracial parents, Lydia was cle
One of three children born to interracial parents, Lydia was clearly the favorite. She was obedient, disciplined, talented, and never caused her parents to worry. When she goes missing and is subsequently found dead, it goes without saying that her parents were truly shocked. It is upon her disappearance that Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng begins, and what follows is a stunning portrait of family obligation, sibling rivalry, marriage, growing up, and societal norms.In the wake of Lydia&s death, each member of her family copes differently. Her mom laments the loss of Lydia&s future while regretting her own decisions, her dad seeks solace in unlikely places, and her brother struggles with what he knows about the neighborhood bad boy. Only Lydia&s younger sister has the presence of mind to see the facts for what they really are, but her role in the family prevents her from being outspoken about it. As each member of the family orbits around each other (and not discussing what they know), they give the reader a glimpse into a life that is less picture-perfect than it seems at first.Although Everything I Never Told You is centered around Lydia&s death, it is ultimately a complex story that incorporates racial tensions, academic pressures, and a precarious family dynamic based on regret and hope. Each family member is harboring secrets and battling inner demons, culminating in a story that is both poignant and realistic. If you&re looking for a book that could easily mirror reality in the late 1970&s, then this is the one for you.Allison @ The Book Wheel
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Gripping Story
I have no idea why this book would get bad reviews on Barnes and Noble. I chose to read this story after discovering that it had been named Amazon's Best Book of 2014 and it had a four star rating on Amazon. I am glad I read it. From beginning to end, this novel captured me. It is a raw and gripping account of a tragic story that we can all learn from. Do not be fooled by poor reviews on BN... this is a very good story that will entrap you from the beginning and will not let you down in the end.
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Great read on so many levels, incredibly well written and layers
Great read on so many levels, incredibly well written and layers of complexity.
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Everything I Never Told You goes to the top of the list of the b
Everything I Never Told You goes to the top of the list of the best books I read this year. It had from the blurb to the very end. I couldn't/wouldn't put it down, no matter how tired I was, I need to know what happened to Lydia. Everything I Never Told You is about a family who entire life changed the moment Lydia, the middle child, didn't come down for breakfast. We get flashbacks on how James and Marilyn L we learn about their background and the decisions they made that contributed to Lydia's death.&In the beginning, as the story became to unfold, I felt sorry for Lydia, but by the end, I was conflicted on how I feel about her. On one hand I feel bad for her, having to live the d then on the other hand, from being so spoiled and having her way she treated her siblings like pieces of crap, especially Nath. I felt so sorry for Nath and Hannah, definitely Hannah who wasn't even noticed by her family. To me, when the parents actually showed any attention to Nath, Lydia would do or say something to get the attention back to her, even though she supposedly hates it.Don't get me started on James and Marilyn, I can't fathom why they're parents. The fact Marilyn forgot all about Hannah is unbelievable. I guess I can kind of see why Marilyn dotted on Lydia, but for the life of me James reason is hard to. Their marriage was one big &What in the world?&&I have to say one of my favorite character's besides Hannah, is Jack, oh I liked him from the beginning, there was something about him that was likable. But once the book goes to a certain part, I was like, &Yes, OMG, yes, I completely understand now.I love this book and could re read over and over again.
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Highly Recommended.
I felt like I was walking in all of the characters' shoes, that's how clearly the author described their conflicts and emotions. I definitely had trouble putting it down...I HAD to know why Lydia was dead.
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This is my first audio book, and I found myself liking it a bit
This is my first audio book, and I found myself liking it a bit too much.
Perhaps it was her soothing voice, perhaps it was just being read to again but I found myself falling asleep a few times.
I told myself I was not going to multitask while listening because I knew I might find myself not listening/paying attention and I really wanted the full experience. That being said, I am hooked!Listening to a book on tape is so different from reading the text myself, as I felt the reader threw her own emotions out there for me as she read.
I felt either I could validate them myself or go against them.
When she spoke, I was either going to feel the same emotions or not, did I feel the hostility/adoration among the characters in the same manner as she did?
It was so interesting to sit back and think about this as she read to me.
I never really thought about this before, but what a huge influence this reader was having on others.
I applied this thought to when I when I raise and lower the pitch of my voice, emphasizing and drawing out words,
I am actually influencing them more than I thought.
I guess I should stop and ask them if they feel the same emotion, it just might be an eye-opener.
So why did Lydia go out into the lake by herself?
To take a rowboat out at night, into the lake where her body would breathe its last breath, just didn&t make any sense to anyone who knew Lydia.
This heartbreaking event crushes her family, leaving her parents searching for answers.
Beginning the book with this tragic event, I have just read what happens towards the end of the book.
The author quickly turns back time so we can get a true picture of the whole family before the event occurred.
Starting before their mixed marriage, we discover the issues the parents had before tying the knot.
Mother had high hopes for her life, a professional career, which was the furthest thing from her mother&s mind.
Love got in the way though and then life got busy.
I liked the pacing of the book, as time moves quickly yet it slows when the important things in life occurred within the family.
Every member of the family is highlighted, all their lives are important as we observe The Lee family.
For somewhere within this household lies the clues that lead Lydia to take the boat out that evening, the evening that added another chapter to The Lee household. Thank you Ford Audiobook Club for the book.
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I found this story to be sad and truthful. Sometimes parents don
I found this story to be sad and truthful. Sometimes parents don't realize the pressure they put on their kids until its too late, sad.
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When nothing about your teenager is as it seems...
Though you empathize with every character and shudder at their mistakes, you learn what underlying agendas can do to a family without it even being aware of these pressures.
Very well-thought out and developed.
I would read again!
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Finding a place to start when you read a book that feels so pers
Finding a place to start when you read a book that feels so personal, so poignant, so beautiful... it's hard to do. As I sit here at my computer contemplating the last 24 hours in which I read Everything I Never Told You, I feel a bit dumbfounded. How do I describe something that feels indescribable? Ultimately I will try my best, but I just want you to know, this is hard to for me to do and I certainly won't do the book justice.The first thing you should know about my review of this book is that it's personal. The main characters in this novel are Asian-Americans living in a quaint All-American community in Middle-of-America Ohio. The Lee family comprises our main characters: including the two parents and three children. From the synopsis and the very first sentence of the book, it is no spoiler that Lydia, the middle child, is dead. Her death, in combination with a long series of miscommunications and years of withholding, creates a cluster of chaos for the Lees, and we see each of them dealing with the loss and life-altering change.&We span several decades, starting with the parents, Marilyn and James, as children and growing up in their respective homes in the 1940s and 50s. We then see their meeting in college and course of events that lead them to marriage, three children and Ohio. The storyline jumps around between the five main characters, Lydia included, from present to varying past points in each of their lives. We learn about secrets they are keeping, the misunderstandings and prideful omissions that are quintessential, albeit intensified for the sake of story-telling, in any family.While the plot of the book is seemingly simple, I found it to be complex and infinitely interesting, how it wove in and out of each character's life and how the author chose to move the timeline. I was not wanting for more or feeling bogged down at any point in the book and the flow of the writing felt easy and effortless.Everything I Never Told You is a brilliant example of &less is more,& when it comes to writing style and narrative. I found Ng's writing to be refreshingly simple, in the best way, void of any pretentious sentiments or the classic &trying to hard& syndrome books can easily fall victim to -- her writing was fluid and purposeful, each sentence needing to be there.The characters in this book were very real to me -- I personally related to their journey as a mixed-race minority in America, though I did not grow up in the s, I certainly understand looking around and not seeing yourself in anyone. Being the only one at school who is different. Feeling like you never quite fit in, despite successful grades and the illusion you give outwardly to hide your lack of belonging. These aspects of the story rang true for me and I was so touched to feel like I saw a part of myself in this book. It is a very rare and unique thing for myself and I truly embraced the experience.Each member of the Lee family had at least one aspects of their personality I could relate to -- whether it was James and his desire to achieve more than his parents, or Marilyn and her determination to rise above expectations. Nath's quiet and unseen brilliance or Lydia's desperate need to please. Even little Hannah and her ability to go unnoticed. While I was angry at all members of the family at certain points, I loved them all and felt like I knew them. They each had struggles seen and unseen, and their need to put on a brave face and hide from the world is something I think most people know all too well.This book evokes the need for a multitude of discussions: diversity in books, racism, feminism, tradition, human sexuality and expectations on children. Each conversation warrants it's own post, so for sake of time and sanity, I will refrain from doing that here. But what is important about this book is that in less than 300 pages it addresses each of this topics in a variety of ways.Beautifully written and perfectly executed, I know for a fact that Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng will go down as one of my favorite books of all time. 5 brilliant stars!
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A beautifully written story about a very sad, regret-filled fami
A beautifully written story about a very sad, regret-filled family. The plot was very depressing.
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Family dynamics
In any family, there are bargains, expectations, alliances, often unspoken, which drive relationships.
This novel explores a family whose complete failure at communication impacts each member in a myriad of ways. The ghostly ties that bind the parents and children in the story create a web of love and tragedy. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and also bought a copy for my DIL.
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Everything I Never Told
This book steels you.... like your in every breathing moment of this tale.
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..... First - I have not read the book - BUT .. if it is even ha
..... First - I have not read the book - BUT .. if it is even half as interesting as the BIO of the author - it's bound to be a delightful and mind re-filling book..
I shall read it.
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Quick read of a thought provoking story
This story portrays how the actions and interactions of a family affect one another. The author does a wonderful job getting the reader to understand the reasons for each family members behavior.
It's a sad but captivating story.
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I love a good mystery especially one that is cerebral so when I
I love a good mystery especially one that is cerebral so when I first saw this up on Edelweiss I was very, very excited to read it!! Well I finally got to it after pushing it further and further down my reading list, I really need to learn to prioritize better, but anyway. So this is one of the few books that I was completely hyped up for that actually lived up to the hype!&Lydia is dead, but was there foul play or did Lydia kill herself?&Lydia's family is a little out the ordinary, her mom is constantly on her about applying herself to all these courses so that she can one day become a doctor, your basic mom living out her dreams that didn't happen for her through her daughter. Lydia's dad is always trying to get her to make more friends to be an average American teenager because he is ashamed of his Chinese heritage. Both parents have deep issues from their pasts that are stressing Lydia out. Luckily Lydia has an ally in her older brother Nathan but soon he won't be there very much longer because he is headed off to Harvard in the fall. Not knowing where to turn to Lydia starts hanging out with the neighborhood bad boy, Jack, whom her brother Nathan strongly disapproves of, but when Lydia realizes that she is not the object of Jack's desires but that her brother is things start to slide even faster down hill from there.,The theme of suicide is not an easy one to approach especially with it dealing with a teenager but the author did an excellent job of portraying the story with grace and understanding though this did make some of the parts in the story a bit boring just because the author choose to stay with that style of writing which to me felt almost surreal (like in a dream or when you feel like you are standing outside yourself watching it all happen, hope that makes sense) but this type of style is also what makes the suicide not seem to gory or horrifying that you want to stop reading the book. So yes some boring parts but the overall content is excellent.&Discover: A poignant tale of how family interactions play such a huge part in who we become and the decisions that we make. &4 stars means this to me: A great read. Memorable and highly entertaining. Recommended, but for whatever reason, not the&all consuming experience that I feel characterizes a five star book. Maybe one or two minor issues.&
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An awesome read
I read this book in less than a day and it was one of the most interesting books I've ever read. There was not one boring moment in this book, and I highly encourge others to read this story about love, loss, and the struggle of understanding each other.
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Beautifully written.
Beautifully written.
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
&b&Everything I Never Told You&/b& by Celeste Ng5 StarsSecrets can kill. Not just the big ones, but the little ones that we live with everyday. They have a way of dragging you down like a weight, and if you can't let them go they will pull you to the bottom until you no longer have the ability escape. This book is a story of secrets. Marilyn can't escape her dissatisfaction with how her life turned out, James longs to be just like everyone else and not the perpetual outsider, Nath just wants to escape, Hannah craves love and affection but has learned that invisibility is her lot in life, and Lydia is searching for freedom from all the expectations and the suffocating love her parents have placed on her young shoulders. These are the secrets that haunt the Lee family, the secrets that Lydia can't escape, because Lydia is dead.I absolutely love this book, though I found it incredibly difficult to read from an emotional stand point. I know that not everyone will be able to understand this book. Some people are lucky enough to grow up in families that are close, loving, and able to communicate their feelings. These are the families that don't harbor secret pains and disappointments. The Lee family is not one of those families. Neither was mine. I related to this story on a visceral level. The feeling you are the perpetual outsider, the desire to escape, being suffocated under unrealistic expectations are all familiar to me. I still struggle with these emotions daily, only now I get to add a struggle with my life not turning out as I planned to the mix. My family's secrets turned out much the same way, though instead of killing her at 16, my sister's secrets killed her at 40. As I said, this book was all to relatable.The language of the book was straightforward, though the story jumped back and forth in time, slowly teasing out the story, revealing bit by bit the events that brought the Lee family to this point. I fully appreciated this use of style. Had it been written in a linear timeline the impact and suspense would have been lessened. The style also added to the character development, knowing how each member of the Lee family came to to be the person they were added to their depth and realism.&Though not everyone will be able to appreciate this book in the same fashion as I do, I still recommend it without reserve. It is a moving and suspenseful portrait of a family and well deserving of all the attention it has received.
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I heard this it wasn't.
Felt like I was reading a Lifetime movie.
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