It’s not every debut novelist that can turn out a book that’s so masterful, so haunting, and so beautiful as Everything I Never Told You is. There’s a very good reason Amazon named it the best book of 2014. In fiction, I don’t always gravitate towards these kinds of books. It’s more of a cerebral, slow-burn of a novel. There’s not a lot of action that takes place over the few hundred pages, no big bombshells dropped that leave you gasping and turning furiously to the next page. Truth be told, I read this book in two chunks. The first half I read in August, at the beach. But then other books came to my attention and it was shelved. I picked it back up last week and read the remaining half quickly. It’s not that you’re eager to get to the end to see how it all turns out; you know that happy endings aren’t what this book is building to. This is an incredibly beautiful book about race, acceptance, and the pressures we face from those we love.
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This was excellent. Sad, but lovely.
That is an incredibly accurate summation of this book.
This book destroyed me in a good way.
Right? I almost want to read it again, to pick up on what I might have missed before, but I don’t think I’m ready for that yet.