A review by josephinelena
They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book was excellent. It was written as a letter to the author’s mother and was a beautiful and painful memoir discussing family dynamics, racism, and sexism in an immigrant family. A deeply personal story intertwined with history and research on mental health and the model minority myth specifically in the Indian American community, this book discussed what success and belonging look like. Highly recommend this one!