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Beautiful Country: A Memoir (Large Print)
Beautiful Country A Memoir - Large Print
Author: Qian Julie Wang
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 a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780593460016
ISBN-10: 0593460014
Publication Date: 10/5/2021
Pages: 464
Edition: Large type / Large p
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Publisher: Random House Large Print
Book Type: Paperback
Large Print: Yes
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Qian Julie Wang's debut memoir Beautiful Country, is about a child who has no hand and no control in an immigration decision, a child who perhaps has no knowledge of that decision, a child whose mother hides an illness for fear of what a doctor's visit will mean for her undocumented family, a child who has no home other than the known neighborhoods of New York. What is to become of this undocumented child as she becomes an adult? Where is home?

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