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Award-winning journalist Prachi Gupta talks about the writing her own story in 'They Called Us Exceptional and Other Lies That Raised Us'

Prachi Gupta’s family was the epitome of the American Dream. In short, the 'model minority" myth fits them to a tee.

In her new book “They Called Us Exceptional,” journalist Prachi Gupta examines the pressures that Indian American families in the US face and the psychological toll that took on her own family. CNN spoke to Gupta about the tragedy that prompted the book, about why she wrote it as a letter to her mother and about whether the American Dream was ever real.

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…

With Jezebel, Gupta discusses her "dysfunctional" family and living a double life: "I questioned my sanity almost daily."

At the very moment my family appeared to have settled into the American Dream, our private traumas made me question all we had outwardly achieved.