They Called Us Exceptional

Phenomenal. Brutal! A memoir of a Millennial Indian-American woman as she reflects on her upbringing in the context of the Indian immigrant community in the US.

I was honestly in awe at the author's ability to be insightful on both the microcosm of her childhood situation (which was tbh brutal - with mental illness tearing at the fabric of everything) and the macrocosm of sociological/political narratives around immigration, Indianness, and American “meritocracy”.