WatercressTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1580, Segment 4
Apr 19, 2021 • 17m
For Asian Americans, the trauma of the pandemic this past year has been compounded by a sharp rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. Award-winning children’s author Andrea Wang writes about the feeling of not belonging–and the anger and shame that accompany it–in a new picture book. “Watercress” is based on a true story from her childhood–the daughter of Chinese immigrants in a small, mostly white town in Ohio.