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A poignant frank and intimate The New York Times memoir by actress Constance Wu about family love sex shame trauma and how she found her voice

Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond Virginia Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions Good girls dont make scenes people warned her And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold emotional nature she found an early outlet in community theaterit was the one place where big feelings were okaywere good even Acting became her refuge and eventually her vocation At eighteen she moved to New York where shed 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

Here Constance shares private memories of childhood young love and heartbreak sexual assault and harassment and how she made it in Hollywood Raw relatable and enthralling Making a Scene is an intimate portrait of the pressures and pleasures of existing in todays world