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Memoir Must: Model Minority Gone Rogue

Memoir Must: Model Minority Gone Rogue

Qin Qin's witty and searching memoir of going rogue shows how hard it is to stop listening to your internalised scripts of who you are, and instead find how to be

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Julia Lawrinson
May 23, 2024
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Qin Qin’s fiercely funny debut, Model Minority Gone Rogue, is a call to everyone who is dissatisfied with whatever box they’ve found themselves inhabiting to find their own courage to go off script.

The memoir is a way of answering the question of how Qin Qin goes from being a model minority - making it to corporate law and going to Harvard on a full sc…

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