![]() When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. ![]() Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James' case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the center of every party. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. So begins the story in this exquisite debut novel about a Chinese American family living in a small town in 1970s Ohio. ![]() A haunting debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation Lydia is dead. ![]()
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