Beautiful country, a memoir, Qian Julie Wang
Type
Label
Beautiful country, a memoir, Qian Julie Wang
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Beautiful country
Medium
large print
Oclc number
1267996222
Responsibility statement
Qian Julie Wang
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
How it began -- Home -- Ascent -- Dances and shadows -- Type B -- The beautiful country -- Silk -- Native speaker -- Dumplings -- Sushi -- Lights -- Chatham Square -- Hair -- Shopping day -- McDonald's -- Sleepover -- Trapdoors -- Solid ground -- Auntie love -- Normalcy -- Marilyn -- Graffiti -- Julie -- Hospital -- Mothers -- Surgery -- Gifted -- Graduation -- Tamagotchi -- Community -- Gone -- Home -- How it begins
Target audience
adult
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Creator
Subject
- Biographies
- Shijiazhuang Shi (China) -- Biography
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Illegal immigration -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
- Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- -- Family
- Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- -- Childhood and youth
- Large print books
- Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
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- Subject9
- Biographies
- Shijiazhuang Shi (China) -- Biography
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Illegal immigration -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
- Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- -- Family
- Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- -- Childhood and youth
- Large print books
- Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Content1
- Author1
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