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Why Didn’t You Tell Me? audiobook
- By: Carmen Rita Wong
- Narrator: Carmen Rita Wong
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
- Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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Why Didn’t You Tell Me? Audiobook 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
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Kirkus Reviews
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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Why Didn’t You Tell Me? Full Details
| Narrator | Carmen Rita Wong |
| Length | 8 hours 16 minutes |
| Author | Carmen Rita Wong |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593587973 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Why Didn’t You Tell Me? is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: immigration, asian americans, asian american, coming of age, parenting, genealogy, american dream, autobiography, autobiography books, biography, immigrant, chinatown, Harlem, secret, identity, mother daughter, race in america, race, culture, society, relationships, family, multiracial, african american, african american books, african american memoirs, memoir books, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, biographies and memoirs, true stories, true story, memoir, memoirs and biographies, black authors, biographies of famous people, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
Additional info
The publisher of the Why Didn’t You Tell Me? is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593587973.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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