Book #23 of 2016. 
 This is a good book for reading in one day on the beach. It's nothing life-changing, but it is interesting and provides some perspective on the lives of those who may live different lives than we do. 
 The lives that I am speaking of are those who deal with subtle forms of racism every day. Now, Everything I Never Told You takes place in the 70s, but the struggles that each member of the Lee family faces remain very real today. I thought that Ng handled the different elements of discrimination and racism fairly, handing off different concerns and awarenesses to different characters, while keeping the book from drifting into preachy. This is by no means a book about racism, which is why it does such a good job making it seem real. 
 Everything I Never Told You is more of an anthropological study of a family than it is a thriller, and that's okay. The characters are compelling; however, most of them are also despicable in one way or another. I liked the siblings, Nath and Hannah, the best of all of the characters in the book. While Lydia dug herself into a realistic hole, I never quite pitied her struggle.