Everything I Never Told You was written by Celeste Ng (Chinese Name: 伍綺詩), who is an American writer and novelist.
It tells the story of a girl called Lydia and her family. By looking for the perpetrator of her death, the story reveals the deep secrets under the surface of a calm sea.
The story happened in a small town of Ohio in the 1970s. There are five people in Lydia's family. Her father was an American-born Chinese man called James Lee. Her mother was a local American woman called Marilyn Lee. Lydia was their second but favorite child. She had an elder brother Nath and a younger sister Hannah.
Lydia loved her parents, especially her mother Marilyn. When she was only 5, her mother decided to leave home and to continue her study in medical science. Marilyn’s leaving made Lydia upset and desperate. Lydia decided to obey all of her mother’s words.
Both James and Marilyn imposed their unachievable dreams upon Lydia. Although Lydia's answer was always “yes”, she resisted all of them deep inside. Her brother Nath’s leaving for Harvard was the last straw that broke the camel’s back. Her parents never knew Lydia’s grievous depression until Lydia’s death.
这个月，继续看一本英语原版小说《无声告白》。
三百多页的书，十个小时的音频，目前差不多完成了四分之三。
沉迷学习，日渐消瘦；沉迷小说，无法自拔~
一开篇第一句Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.
掀开了耐人寻味的悬疑序幕。
感觉在这里作者的写法颇像如今的标题党
《震惊！16岁花季少女离奇死亡！家人却一无所知！》
而真相到底是什么？
而带有一丝丝神秘感的书名Everything I Never Told You
这里的 I 指的是谁？
为什么翻译成《无声告白》？
《无言的结局》会不会更好？
Lydia一家如白开水一般平平淡淡的生活，
却像平静的海面下隐藏着巨大的冰山，
所有的相关人和事看似杂乱无章，
然而，如洋葱一层一层地慢慢拨开，
一直带你找到Lydia死亡的真相-----
配不上父母的野心，也辜负了所受的苦难。
“我们终此一生，就是要摆脱他人的期待，找到真正的自己”
但是谈何容易呢？
人在江湖，身不由己。
想到最近看过的一部电影《摔跤吧！爸爸》，
里面的女儿们都肩负着父母的厚望，
和Lydia不同的是，她们有能力有天赋最终取得了成功。
再看看《欢乐颂 2》里的几个角色，哪个在爱别人的同时，失去了自己？
当爱成为枷锁，
所有的一切都让人难过。
在这本小说里，
每个人都可以或多或少找到自己的影子，
可能还不止一个。
在看的过程中，
书中还有很多让我感悟多多的地方，
留到下次写笔记再发挥吧！
最后用《越读者》里的话做个总结：
好看的小说，第一句话、第一页就告诉你这是一部好看的小说。
所以，文字是有魅力的。
好看的小说，又不是真要告诉你什么道理。小说要说的话，总是意在言外。
