‘Shang-Chi’ star Simu Liu is ready to share his own “immigrant superhero origin story” in his new memoir, ‘We Were Dreamers’
According to publisher William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, the book is less a “celebrity memoir” and more of an immigrant story of “growing up between cultures, finding your family, and becoming the master of your own extraordinary circumstance.”, writes about shaking the “model-minority Asian” card, as well as the experiences that pushed him to leave the “comfort zone” of a finance career to pursue acting.
The book is also a reconciliation story to an extent: Liu’s parents left him in the care of his grandparents in China as a toddler, while they went to Canada to set up a better future for the family. By the time Liu reunited with his family in Toronto, he was four years old and, as the publisher notes explain, “emotionally distant and difficult to relate to… separated by culture, language and values.”on his social media feed.
Liu first teased the book back in June, tweeting simply that he, “wrote a book.” His new post reveals contributions from Olivia Munn, fellow Canadian superhero Ryan Reynolds, and
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