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100 1  Wang, Qian Julie,|d1987-|eauthor|enarrator. 
245 10 Beautiful country|h[electronic resource] :|ba memoir /|cby
       Qian Julie Wang. 
264  1 New York :|bDoubleday,|c[2021] 
264  4 |c©2020 
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511 0  Read by Qian Julie Wang. 
520    "Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, 
       unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of 
       growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."-
       -Gish Jen, author of The Resisters Ba Ba told me this and 
       I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't 
       stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, 
       America, this beautiful country--we would be okay. An 
       incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie 
       Wang's five years living undocumented after immigrating 
       with her parents from China to New York City in 1994. In 
       Chinese the word for the United States, Mei Guo, 
       translates directly to "beautiful country," but 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. Unable
       to speak English at first, Qian is isolated and 
       disregarded, put into special education classes because 
       she doesn't speak the language and humiliated by teachers 
       and classmates when she struggles to pay attention because
       of hunger or exhaustion. She encounters racism, and people
       of other races, for the first time, shocked at where her 
       family fits in comparison to their status as educated 
       elites in China. After school she works shifts alongside 
       her mother in Chinatown sweatshops. There is so much about
       Qian's new home that doesn't make sense, but the rules of 
       survival are drilled into her head: If you see a policeman,
       you must run in the other direction. If anyone asks--or 
       even if they don't--you tell them you were born here. Do 
       as you're told or we could be separated forever. 
       Understanding impliclity the toll this has taken on her 
       parents, Qian tries desperately to cheer them up and 
       mediate their increasingly heated arguments, certain that 
       if she is good enough, she can hold the family together. 
       In remarkable, unsentimental prose Wang channels her 
       childhood perspective, illuminating the cruelty and 
       indignity of America's immigration system, while 
520    also crafting a narrative of resilience from her family's 
       small moments of joy: their first slice of pizza, 
       "shopping days" when the family would unearth unlikely 
       treasures in Brooklyn's trash, and the necessary escape 
       she found in books at the local library. Searing and 
       unforgettable, Beautiful Country is an essential book 
       about the cost of making a home in a hostile land from an 
       astonishing new talent"--|cProvided by publisher. 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cPenguin Random House 
       Audio Publishing Group|d2021|nAvailable via World Wide 
       Web. 
600 10 Wang, Qian Julie,|d1987-|xChildhood and youth. 
600 10 Wang, Qian Julie,|d1987-|xFamily. 
650  0 Chinese Americans|zNew York (State)|zNew York|vBiography. 
650  0 Immigrants|zNew York (State)|zNew York|vBiography. 
650  0 Illegal aliens|zNew York (State)|zNew York|vBiography. 
650  0 Audiobooks. 
651  0 Shijiazhuang Shi (China)|vBiography. 
651  0 Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)|vBiography. 
710 2  OverDrive, Inc.,|edistributor. 
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