Literary Fiction
by Celeste Ng
The beloved middle daughter of a Chinese-American family is found drowned in a lake in 1970s Ohio, and her death unravels the carefully constructed lives of those she left behind. Through shifting perspectives, the novel excavates family secrets, parental expectations, and the unbearable weight of being different. A delicate, devastating exploration of belonging, pressure, and the things we cannot say.
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