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. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was a New York Times bestseller, a 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. However, in Toledo Marilyn discovers she is pregnant with Hannah, and she decides to return home. Celeste Ng is the author of three novels, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts. 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. Top Picks Book Jacket: Clytemnestra Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati Book Jacket: Fatherland Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger Book Jacket: The Making of Yolanda. 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. Growing up, Marilyn is disdainful of her mother’s perfect housewife performance and her vocation as a home economics teacher. Marilyn is the daughter of Doris Walker and was born and raised in Virginia.
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