Although I liked Everything I Never Told You, the author's writing style made the novel difficult to get through at times. There was a lot of head hopping, sometimes in the same paragraph. That was confusing for me. The shifts in time weren't always clear, either, so that one minute you're reading past tense, and then two paragraphs later reading an event taking place in the present. 
 Nonetheless, I felt this was a solid story. It touched on racism and sexism, with the story centered around a mixed-race family--a white woman married to a Chinese man--and how the parents put so much pressure on Lydia (their daughter). The father wanted her to be the popular, social dynamo he was not. The mother wanted her to become a doctor, achieving a goal she'd had to give up when she became pregnant and got married. 
 This entire family was broken. Unfortunately, both parents lived the life they wished they'd lived through Lydia, and sadly, their actions resulted in a tragic death.