Lydia is dead but they don’t know it yet so begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small town. Ohio Lydia is the favorite child of Maryland and James Lee and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue, but when Lydia‘s body is found in the local lake, the delicate, balancing act that had been keeping the leaf family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos a profoundly moving story of the family, secrets and longing everything I told you is both gripping page Turner, and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters fathers and sons and husbands and wives struggle all their lies to understand another one 

ISBN: 9780143127550