A Study of the Trans-Generational Trauma in Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng’s first novel Everything I Never Told is about a tragedy that happened in a mixed race family,the family of a Chinese American college professor and his stay-at-home white wife in a small Ohio town in the 1970s.The novel looks at the trau⁃matic events suffered by the Chinese American family,but facing the traumatic memory and reshaping the family relationship are the writing purposes of Celeste Ng.Based on trauma theory,the transmission of trauma in Chinese American families would be dis⁃cussed.This kind of trauma not only harms the parents'generation,but also affects the healthy growth of the children's generation.The aim of the novel is to find a way to recover from such traumatic transmission.