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From actor Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays.
Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu
was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. "Good
girls don't make scenes," people warned her. And while she spent most of
her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, she found an early
outlet in local community theater--it was the one place where big
feelings were okay--were good, even. Acting became her refuge, her
touchstone, and eventually her vocation. At eighteen she moved to New
York, where she'd spend the next ten years of her life auditioning,
waiting tables, and struggling to make rent before her two big breaks:
the TV sitcom Fresh Off the Boat and the hit film Crazy Rich Asians.
Through raw and relatable essays, Constance shares private memories of
childhood, young love and heartbreak, sexual assault and harassment, and
how she "made it" in Hollywood. Her stories offer a behind-the-scenes
look at being Asian American in the entertainment industry and the
continuing evolution of her identity and influence in the public eye.
Making a Scene is an intimate portrait of pressures and pleasures of
existing in today's world.
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