Why Didn't you Tell me? : : a Memoir

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Call Number: 921 Wong, Carmen , Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Wong, Carmen Rita
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Wong, Carmen Rita	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Prologue -- Because the stage was set -- Because white is right -- Because I sold my soul for the American dream -- Because we lost our way -- Because you were on the way -- Because we were vested -- Because we needed to be free -- Because I thought I could start over -- Because I thought we had time -- Because it was too late -- Because I didn't know the truth could ever be found -- Because you know who you are -- Epilogue.
"Carmen Rita Wong-media entrepreneur, former national television host, author and advice columnist-has always craved a sense of belonging. First, in a warm room full of Black and brown Latina women cheering on her dancing during her childhood in Harlem. Then, among the almost exclusively white playgrounds of New Hampshire, after her mother married her stepfather, Charlie, who seemed to be the ideal of the white American dad. She had always believed what her mother told her: that her father was a man named Peter Wong, a Chinese hustler whom she was forced to marry for a green card. But then, as Carmen's mother was dying of cancer, Charlie revealed that he was actually her father-a painful revelation made all the more confusing when a DNA test later proved that neither Peter nor Charlie was her father. It was too late for answers. Her mother had passed away. Carmen wanted to shake her mother's soul at its shoulders and demand: "Why didn't you tell me?" What follows is Carmen's search for understanding of who she is as she peels back the layers of her mother's history and the secrets 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 it shapes who we think we are"-- Provided by publisher.

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