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

From Crown Publishing: 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 ReviewONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Kirkus ReviewsMy 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 excl