{"id":36963,"date":"2014-08-04T18:54:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36963"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:32:07","slug":"everything-i-never-told-you-exposed-in-biracial-familys-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36963","title":{"rendered":"‘Everything I Never Told You’ Exposed In Biracial Family’s Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Everything I Never Told You’ Exposed In Biracial Family’s Loss<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity<\/a>
\nNational Public Radio<\/a>
\n2014-06-28<\/p>\n

Arun Rath<\/strong>
\nAll Things Considered<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

It’s May, 1977, in small-town Ohio<\/a>, and the Lee family is sitting down at breakfast. James is Chinese-American and Marilyn is white, and they have three children \u2014 two girls and a boy. But on this day, their middle child Lydia, who is also their favorite, is nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

That’s how Celeste Ng’s<\/a> new novel, Everything I Never Told You<\/em><\/a>, begins.<\/p>\n

It’s soon discovered that Lydia has drowned in a nearby lake, in what looks like a suicide. The incident pulls the family into an emotional vortex and reveals deep cracks in their relationships with each other.<\/p>\n

This all takes place an era when interracial marriages are only recently legal (the Supreme Court struck down interracial marriage bans in 1967<\/a>). Lydia’s death forces members of the Lee family to confront their individual insecurities and grapple with their identity as a biracial family in the Midwest.<\/p>\n

But would it be very different for them today? Ng answered that question for NPR’s Arun Rath, host of All Things Considered<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ng, who is a first-generation Asian-American Midwesterner, also spoke about her own experiences growing up and about the state of the American conversation on race…<\/p>\n

Read the article here<\/a>. Listen to the interview here<\/a>. Download the interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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