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Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
From Book to Storyboard - 1
Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.
So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos.
From Book to Storyboard - 1
In this project, I chose an excerpt from a favorite book of mine and translated it to an audiovisual format - imagining what the scene would be like visually - using my cinematographic repertoire.
The scene I chose is a childhood flashback to the siblings Lydia and Nathan Lee. It's summer 1967 and their mother has just left them and they don't know what to do. Nathan (7) decides to leave the house and venture into the lake on the other side of the neighborhood. Lydia (5) follows him but cannot swim.
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