Celeste Ng

You can’t blame yourself if the students don’t try. And they’re not all so bad. A few got As.”

You can’t blame yourself if the students don’t try. And they’re not all so bad. A few got As.”

Lots of times, they say, the girls are mad at their parents and the parents don’t even know.

“Not with Lydia making a face like that. People will think she looks like that all the time. Pick a nice one.”

Lydia has never really had friends, but their parents have never known.

hugged her for a long time and whispered, “How proud I am of you. You have no idea.”

, Lydia’s ink-black

sixty-five out of one hundred—and circles it.

Your wife’s—not Chinese?”

Lydia Elizabeth Lee, sixteen, last seen Monday May 2, flowered halter-neck dress, parents James and Marilyn Lee.