ISBN号:9780593442982
书名:They Called Us Exceptional
作者:Prachi Gupta
出版日期:2023-08-22
英文简介:
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority mythfractured her familyin this “searingly honest memoir that manages to be at once a scalding indictment and a heartfelt love letter” (Scott Stossel,author of My Age of Anxiety).
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SEASON- The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Bustle “In examining with boundless love the secrets and sorrows of one family, Gupta shows us the life-altering power of telling one’s truth.
“-Megha Majumdar,author of A Burning How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self? What do we stand to gain-and lose-by taking control of our narrative? These questions propel Prachi Gupta’s heartfelt memoir and can feel particularly fraught for immigrants and their children who live under immense pressure to belong in America.
Prachi Gupta’s family embodied the American Dream- a doctor father and a nurturing mother who raised two high-achieving children with one foot in the Indian American community, the other in Pennsylvania’s white suburbia.
But their belonging was predicated on a powerful myth- that Asian Americans have perfected the alchemy of middle-class life, raising tight-knit, ambitious families that are immune to hardship.
Molding oneself to fit this perfect image often comes at a steep but hidden cost.
In They Called Us Exceptional, Gupta articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success story while privately navigating traumas invisible to the outside world.
Gupta addresses her mother throughout the book, weaving a deeply vulnerable personal narrative with history, postcolonial theory, and research on mental health, to show how she slowly made sense of her reality and freed herself emotionally and physically from the pervasive, reductive myth that had once defined her.
But, tragically, the act that liberated Gupta was also the act that distanced her from those she loved most.
By charting her family’s slow unraveling and her determination to break the cycle, Gupta shows how traditional notions of success keep us disconnected from ourselves and one another-and passionately argues why we must orient ourselves toward compassion over belonging.
中文简介:
一位印度裔美国女儿在这本“极其诚实的回忆录中揭示了危险的模范少数族裔神话如何使她的家庭破裂，这本回忆录既是一份滚烫的控诉，又是一封衷心的情书”（斯科特·斯托塞尔，《我的焦虑时代》的作者）。
本季最佳图书之一——《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《波士顿环球报》、《喧嚣》“古普塔以无限的爱审视一个家庭的秘密和悲伤，向我们展示了说出真相可以改变生活的力量。
“——Megha Majumdar，《燃烧》的作者 当关于我们应该是谁的故事比我们的自我意识更强烈时，我们如何理解自己？通过控制我们的叙述，我们会得到什么，又会失去什么？这些问题推动了普拉奇·古普塔（Prachi Gupta）真诚的回忆录的发展，对于生活在归属美国的巨大压力下的移民及其子女来说，这些问题尤其令人担忧。
普拉奇·古普塔（Prachi Gupta）的家庭体现了美国梦——父亲是医生，母亲是养育者，他们一只脚在印第安裔美国人社区，另一只脚在宾夕法尼亚州的白人郊区抚养了两个成绩优异的孩子。
但他们的归属是建立在一个强大的神话之上的——亚裔美国人已经完善了中产阶级生活的炼金术，养育了紧密团结、雄心勃勃、不受困难影响的家庭。
塑造自己以适应这种完美形象往往需要付出高昂但隐性的代价。
在《他们称我们杰出》一书中，古普塔阐述了作为美国成功故事而被维护的不和谐、耻辱和孤立，而私下里却在经历外界看不见的创伤。
古普塔在整本书中都在向她的母亲讲话，将极其脆弱的个人叙述与历史、后殖民理论和心理健康研究编织在一起，以展示她如何慢慢地理解自己的现实，并在情感和身体上将自己从普遍存在的、还原性的神话中解放出来。
曾经定义过她。
但可悲的是，解放古普塔的行为也使她与她最爱的人疏远了。
通过描绘她家庭的慢慢解体和她打破循环的决心，古普塔展示了传统的成功观念如何使我们与自己和彼此脱节，并热情地论证了为什么我们必须把自己定位于同情而不是归属感。
书籍总体字数：93829，除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余85751计入单词总数。
书籍单词数在5万至10万之间，难度适合,不过还需要结合下方难度分析。
其中：
四级单词出现78709个/次,
六级单词（排除四级单词后）出现1251个/次，
托福单词出现40274个/次，
SAT单词出现4641个/次，
GRE单词出现7573个/次，考研单词出现78457个/次，
雅思单词出现18135个/次。
高中单词出现75192个/次。
（后附饼图供直观参考）
这些统计基于我的词库，不排除词库存在误差，仅供参考。
非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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