¿Por qué no me lo dijiste?¿Por qué no me lo dijiste?
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Current format, Book, 2023, Primera edición, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsCarmen Rita Wong siempre ha anhelado un sentido de pertenencia: primero cuando era una niña pequeña en una habitación cálida llena de mujeres latinas negras y morenas, como su madre, Lupe, animándola bailando durante su infancia en Harlem. Y en Chinatown, donde su padre inmigrante, "Papi" Wong, un estafador, la exhibiría a ella y a su hermano mayor en opulentos restaurantes decorados en rojo y dorado. Luego vinieron los patios de recreo casi exclusivamente blancos de New Hampshire después de que su madre se casara con su padrastro, Marty, quien parecía ser el ideal del padre estadounidense blanco. Cuando Carmen ingresó a este nuevo mundo con su nueva familia (Lupe y Marty pronto tuvieron cuatro hijos más), su relación con su madre se volvió tensa, suspicaz y conflictiva, explicada solo años después por los secretos que su madre había guardado durante tanto tiempo. Y cuando esos secretos fueron revelados, aportando claridad a gran parte de la vida de Carmen, ya era demasiado tarde para obtener respuestas. Cuando su madre falleció, Carmen quiso sacudir su alma por los hombros y exigir: ¿Por qué no me dijiste? Ex presentadora de televisión nacional, columnista de consejos y profesora, Carmen busca entender quién es ella realmente mientras descubre la historia oculta de su madre, enfrentándose a las revelaciones que se filtran. ¿Por qué no me dijiste? es una historia fascinante y conmovedora de la experiencia de Carmen sobre la raza y la cultura en Estados Unidos y cómo dan forma a lo que creemos que somos.
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
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
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