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Why Didn't You Tell Me? - A Memoir
Carmen Rita Wong."An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her identity, & her place in the world in this powerful and dramatic memoir: "My mother carried a powerful secret. A secret that shaped my life and the lives of everyone around me in ways she could not have imagined."
“Riveting... [Wong] tells her story in vivid conversational prose that will make readers feel they’re listening to a master storyteller on a long car trip... Hers is a hero’s journey.” - The New York Times Book Review
Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a toddler in a warm room full of Black & brown Latina women, like her mother, Lupe, cheering her dancing during her childhood in Harlem. And in Chinatown, where her immigrant father, “Papi” Wong, a hustler, would show her & her older brother off in opulent restaurants decorated in red & gold. Then came the almost exclusively white playgrounds of New Hampshire after her mother married her stepfather, Marty, who seemed to be the ideal of the white American dad.
As Carmen entered this new world with her new family - Lupe & Marty quickly had four more children - her relationship with her mother became fraught with tension, suspicion, & conflict, explained only years later by the secrets her mother had kept for so long. And when those secrets were revealed, bringing clarity to so much of Carmen’s life, it was too late for answers. When her mother passed away, Carmen wanted to shake her soul by its shoulders & demand: Why Didn't You Tell Me?
A former national television host, advice columnist, & professor, Carmen Rita Wong searches to understand who she really is as she discovers her mother’s hidden history, facing the revelations that seep out. Why Didn’t You Tell Me? is a riveting & poignant story of Carmen’s experience of race & culture in America & how they shape who we thi
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