![]() ![]() After Lydia’s death, Marilyn is forced to reckon with the fact that she did not understand her daughter as well as she thought. ![]() Marilyn ultimately projects her obsession with becoming a doctor onto Lydia, aggressively encouraging her daughter to enroll in advanced science courses. However, in Toledo Marilyn discovers she is pregnant with Hannah, and she decides to return home. When Marilyn learns that her neighbor Janet Wolff is a doctor, Marilyn abandons her family to finish her undergraduate degree in Toledo, with the intention of finally realizing her dream of attending medical school. After giving birth to Nath and Lydia, Marilyn becomes increasingly restless and dissatisfied with her life. On discovering that she is pregnant with Nath, Marilyn and James quickly marry, and the family moves to Middlewood, Ohio, where James has been given a professorial position. She dreams of becoming a doctor and she excels in her studies at Radcliffe (the women’s college within Harvard University), where she meets James. From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Our Missing Hearts comes a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s 1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was a New York Times bestseller, a. Growing up, Marilyn is disdainful of her mother’s perfect housewife performance and her vocation as a home economics teacher. Celeste Ng is the author of three novels, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts. Marilyn is the daughter of Doris Walker and was born and raised in Virginia. ![]()
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