When is too much Too Much? - Novel for Teens and Parents

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 Lee; 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. -- http://www.celesteng.com/everything-i-never-told-you/

Powerful first novel by Celeste Ng.  It is a story for families, children and parents.  We want the very best for our children.  When is too much really too much?    It is a story of being different.  It is a story of trying to fit in.  One can read this tragic story on several levels.  It is a story of discrimination.  It is a story of growing up different.  It is a story of a family at war with itself.

If you are a high school student or parent of a teenager this is a book for you.  It should generate conversations with each other and yoru children or parents.

Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You (Penguin Press), which was a New York Times bestseller and Amazon's #1 Best Book of the Year 2014. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. Celeste attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere, and she is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize.