Family Secrets, Plural

Carmen Rita Wong thought her Chinese father was her father. But her Dominican mother had...let's just call them secrets. Plural. WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME? kept me up all night, feeling them unfold.

Carmen Rita Wong, courtesy of the author

I first “met” Carmen Rita Wong—we’ve yet to meet in person, but I feel as if I now know her better than people I’ve known for decades—in those turbulent late months of 2020, when so many of us who caught Covid early were trying to get doctors to understand what was happening to our bodies. This was before the term…