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It was published by penguin books and has a total of 297 pages in the book. She attended harvard university and earned an mfa from the university of michigan. Dec 20, 2018 celeste ng said that her drive to share her good fortune with her peers comes from her own early career uncertainties. Everything i never told you penguin press, 2014, by celeste ng. The first edition of the novel was published in june 26th 2014, and was written by celeste ng. Everything i never told you is the debut novel by celeste ng and tells a powerful and yet quiet stroy about the lee family who are coming to terms with losing their teenage daughter. Jun 26, 2014 a profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, everything i never told you is both a gripping pageturner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
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