Beautiful country : a memoir
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2021].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
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Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
974.71 WANG
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974.71 WANG
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Forks - Nonfiction (Adult)
974.71 WANG
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974.71 WANG
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LC Subjects
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Noncitizens -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Shijiazhuang Shi (China) -- Biography.
Undocumented immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Wang, Qian Julie, -- 1987- -- Childhood and youth.
Wang, Qian Julie, -- 1987- -- Family.
Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Noncitizens -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Shijiazhuang Shi (China) -- Biography.
Undocumented immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Wang, Qian Julie, -- 1987- -- Childhood and youth.
Wang, Qian Julie, -- 1987- -- Family.
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2021].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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In Chinese the word for the United States, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." When seven-year-old Qian is plucked from her warm and happy childhood surrounded by extended family in China, she finds a world of crushing fear and poverty instead. For five years she lived undocumented after immigrating with her parents to New York City. Shocked at where her family fits in comparison to their status as educated elites in China, she works shifts alongside her mother in Chinatown sweatshops. Unable to speak English, isolated and disregarded, Qian put into special education classes and humiliated by teachers and classmates when she struggles to pay attention because of hunger or exhaustion. Her memoir illuminates the cruelty and indignity of America's immigration system, and the cost of making a home in a hostile land. -- adapted from publisher info