Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Here's what the book is about:  the death of a teenage girl, Lydia, from a mixed-race family in 1970s Ohio, suddenly forces a once tight-knit family to unravel in unexpected ways.

I liked this book but thought that some aspects were predictable and a bit cliche. At times I felt like I was reading a YA book; it WOULD be a very good YA book.

Maybe because I find it hard to believe that Asian students would be heckled in the 70s. Did I just forget that or because I didn't really have many Asians in my high school, I was unaware? But I was in college in the 70s and NEVER felt any prejudice toward Asians in my life at U of W.

But I was very aware of prejudice against Blacks and even Jews. So maybe I was just delusional about the Asian prejudice and it existed but I was unaware. So then, this book is a good one and enlightened me about something of which I was unaware.

I liked the way that the reader came to understand Lydia and her "suicide" (spoiler - it WASN'T a suicide, but the family will never know that)

So yes, I enjoyed the book, am glad I read it but it was not the best book in this genre that I have read.