“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” These are the two opening lines of Celeste Ng’s novel, “Everything I Never Told” that won the Amazon book of the year in 2014. My first reaction was, “Geez, how can someone be dead already?” My second reaction was, “Who the heck is Lydia?” My third reaction was, “Will my book club ever pick a non-depressing book *sigh*?” 297 pages later I had most of the answers to the questions I sought…well, with the exception of the my book-club’s fondness for pensive and dark story-lines.