Why Didn't You Tell Me? Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Carmen Rita Wong
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
64

Why Didn't You Tell Me? by Carmen Rita Wong Book Summary

An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her identity, and her place in the world in this powerful and dramatic memoir

“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

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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.

Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a toddler in a warm room full of Black and 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 and her older brother off in opulent restaurants decorated in red and 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 and Marty quickly had four more children—her relationship with her mother became fraught with tension, suspicion, and 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 and demand: Why didn’t you tell me?

A former national television host, advice columnist, and professor, Carmen 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 and poignant story of Carmen’s experience of race and culture in America and how they shape who we think we are.

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Book Name Why Didn't You Tell Me?
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 22.29 MB

Why Didn't You Tell Me? (Carmen Rita Wong) Book Reviews 2024

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An American story. An enthralling story of family - in an all encompassing definition. A search for identity, an exploration of culture. A story of love, of lost, and of forgiveness. A must read.

Insightful and inspiring. Excellent story of resilience and perseverance.

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The Why Didn't You Tell Me? book written by Carmen Rita Wong was published on 12 July 2022, Tuesday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 64 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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