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. Gupta joined Amna Nawaz ...

The cover of "They Called Us Exceptional" and author Prachi Gupta. (Courtesy of Crown Publishing Group and Ruben Chamorro) Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with journalist and author Prachi Gupta about her ...

Editor’s Note: This feature is part of CNN Style’s series Hyphenated, which explores the complex issue of identity among minorities in the United States. From the outside looking in, Prachi Gupta’s ...

The writer Prachi Gupta comes from a family that appears a certain way from the outside. PRACHI GUPTA: Many people, including within my own family, saw us as this picture-perfect Indian American ...

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 in 2017, ...

On a recent episode of the Armchair Expert, journalist and author, Prachi Gupta was visiting the podcast to promote her book They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us, which in part ...

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