PRACHI GUPTA: Many people, including within my own family, saw us as this picture-perfect Indian American family - a father who's a doctor. My brother and I were very high achieving.

Prachi Gupta's new memoir, “They Called Us Exceptional and Other Lies That Raised Us,” explores the model minority myth and its harmful effects on her Indian American family.

By Prachi Gupta. Dawn. Kanika has several meanings in Sanskrit, but Papa liked “gold”—an object so striking that people traded it for food and clothing. You preferred the name Prachi.

PRACHI GUPTA: Many people, including within my own family, saw us as this picture-perfect Indian American family - a father who's a doctor. My brother and I were very high achieving.

Prachi Gupta never planned to write a memoir. “I’m a reporter and I prefer writing about other people,” she explained to Jezebel in a recent Zoom. But the death of her younger brother Yush ...

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