Everything I Never Told You
Everything I Never Told YouCeleste Ng
Characters in Everything I Never Told You
7 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Lydia Lee
A biracial teenager found drowned, whose family only learns after her death how little they truly saw her.
Supporting characters
Marilyn Lee
Lydia's mother, a white woman who gave up her dream of becoming a doctor and pinned her ambitions on her daughter.
James Lee
Lydia's father, a Chinese-American history professor who has spent his life longing to fit in.
Nath Lee
Lydia's older brother, bound for Harvard and the only one who senses what she carried.
Hannah Lee
The overlooked youngest child, quietly observant of everything her family misses.
Jack Wolff
A neighborhood boy entangled in the family's suspicions about Lydia.
Marilyn
Lydia's mother, who transferred her own abandoned ambitions onto her daughter.