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.”

His parents never go out or entertain; they have no dinner parties, no bridge group, no hunting buddies or luncheon pals.

His parents never go out or entertain; they have no dinner parties, no bridge group, no hunting buddies or luncheon pals.

That was where she ran into Tom Lawson.

White-hatted, white-skirted nurses glided in and out like clouds, bearing syringes of insulin, bottles of pills, rolls of gauze.