A review by angechen
Making a Scene by Constance Wu

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.5

The difference between MAKING A SCENE and other memoirs is that in other memoirs, the scene makes the person — the life is driven by the external hardship.

In her book, Constance Wu makes the scenes.

It takes courage to tell one’s story the way Wu does. She unabashedly exposes her flaws, her self-reflections are full of contradictions, and, even if the essays are tied nicely with a bow, they still betray the unresolved. Wu is messy and passionate and vibrant, simultaneously breaking out of and boxing herself into expected femininity.

There’s an overlying narrative of what “making a scene” meant — times where she was loved for it, times she held back, and times she couldn’t help herself — that could have been tighter had essays been ordered differently and/or cut. 

Highlights were essays about her relationships with her family; the one about her parents particularly moved me. I also enjoyed the story about her actor FWB for the celeb tea 
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