Carmen Rita Wong, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?: A Memoir

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Zibby speaks to former national television host, advice columnist, nonprofit board leader, and professor Carmen Rita Wong about Why Didn’t You Tell Me?, an explosive and raw memoir about an immigrant mother’s powerful secret and how it upends her Dominican-Chinese daughter’s life. Carmen delves into her fascinating story, which involves a deceptive mother, a gangster father, a genealogist, generational trauma, racism, and a lifelong identity crisis. She also talks about her wonderful daughter, her career in journalism, and what she is working on next.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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1:03.3	Carmen Rita Wong is the author of Why Didn't You Tell Me? A memoir. She has a 20-plus-year
1:08.6	career in media and many years of nonprofit work.
1:11.9	Carmen was vice chair of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and nominating chair of the Moth.
1:17.1	She co-created and hosted her own TV news show, was on air and on staff at three TV networks,
1:22.4	and was a magazine editor, then advice columnist, for four national magazines.
1:26.8	Now she heads up her own production company
1:28.5	with a focus on women-led content, and she created and hosted a podcast featuring some incredible
1:33.5	women. She has written two novels in a series and two advice books featuring some incredible
1:38.5	women. I love your beautiful bookshelf back there. That's awesome. And yours too.
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