Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood. Qian Julie Wang, Qian Julie Wang
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ISBN: 9780593313008 | 320 pages | 8 Mb
- Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood
- Qian Julie Wang, Qian Julie Wang
- Page: 320
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780593313008
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Notes From Your Bookseller Evocative, ironic, aspirational and crushing, Qian Julie Wang has written an unforgettable memoir of the soul shaking experience of being undocumented. Not theory, not analysis, but life as lived in a maelstrom of conflicting opposites, balancing memory against present, known and unknown, despair and perseverance, love and hunger, always hunger. Fervent and cinematic, Beautiful Country is an extraordinary debut. A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world—an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent • A TODAY SHOW #READWITHJENNA PICK In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. And where there is delight to be found, Qian relishes it: her first bite of gloriously greasy pizza, weekly “shopping days,” when Qian finds small treasures in the trash lining Brooklyn’s streets, and a magical Christmas visit to Rockefeller Center—confirmation that the New York City she saw in movies does exist after all. But then Qian’s headstrong Ma Ma collapses, revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor’s visit. As Ba Ba retreats further inward, Qian has little to hold onto beyond his constant refrain: Whatever happens, say that you were born here, that you’ve always lived here. Inhabiting her childhood perspective with exquisite lyric clarity and unforgettable charm and strength, Qian Julie Wang has penned an essential American story about a family fracturing under the weight of invisibility, and a girl coming of age in the shadows, who never stops seeking the light.
A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Wang, Qian
Type: Paperback ; Release Title: Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood ; Artist: Wang, Qian Julie ; Brand: N/A ; Format: books.
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such a humbling story. as qian julie wang recounts her childhood years as an undocumented immigrant in NYC, she explores not only the trials many immigrant
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood ; Publisher Anchor ; Publication Date 2022-09-27 ; Section New Titles - Paperback / Biography ; Type New
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir written by Qian Julie Wang of her immigration to the United States as a seven year-old child with her parents as they were fleeing
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Beautiful Country is a candid memoir of growing up in New York as an undocumented immigrant. Qian relives her childhood of uncertainty, fear and hunger with
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A devastating account of the deprived childhood of a Chinese illegal immigrant to the US, sad and painful to read but written with an amazing, innovative use of
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Qian Julie's first book is a poignant literary memoir that follows the family through those years, as they grappled with poverty, manual labor in sweatshops,
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