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 ...

In this passionate memoir, journalist Gupta (AOC: Fighter, Phenom, Changemaker) details the stresses she endured growing up in a volatile Indian American family. Addressing her estranged mother ...

Prachi Gupta is an award-winning journalist and former senior reporter at Jezebel. She won a Writers Guild Award for her investigative essay “Stories About My Brother.” Her work was featured in The ...