Prachi Gupta on the Price of the American Dream for Immigrant Families

Prachi Gupta is an award-winning journalist and former senior reporter at Jezebel. She won the Writer's Guild Award for her investigative essay, Stories About My Brother. Her work has been featured in The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 and has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Salon, Elle, and more. In this conversation, Gupta discusses her deeply personal memoir, They Called Us Exceptional, which explores the hidden costs of pursuing the American Dream through the lens of an immigrant family.