"My book is really an attempt to change that conversation and begin to dismantle some of these pressures so that we don't have to be upheld to these standards."

Prachi Gupta's memoir, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us, combines meticulous research with the challenging and emotional story of her own family to reveal the truth of the model minority myth and those it affects. Gupta joins us to talk about why she wrote this book, the myth of American Exceptionalism, how it feels to put this kind of work out into the world and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.

This episode of Poured Over was produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.

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They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta