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092			_aWONG, C. _bW872
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100	1		_aWong, Carmen Rita, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWhy didn't you tell me? : _ba memoir / _cCarmen Rita Wong.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bCrown, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2022
300			_ax, 216 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aWong, Carmen Rita.
650		0	_aAuthors, American _y20th century _vBiography. _97656
650		0	_aTelevision personalities _zUnited States _vBiography. _99275
650		0	_aInternet personalities _zUnited States _vBiography. _9317479
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