They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta

They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

Prachi Gupta

288 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir medium-paced

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An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in this “searingly honest memoir that manages to be at once a scalding indictment and a heartfelt love letter” (Scott Stossel, author of My Age of Anxie...

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