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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- author.     Subjects     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.     Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- author.       by title:      Beautiful country [l...         MARC Display

Beautiful country [large type] : a memoir / Qian Julie Wang. by Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- author. New York : Random House Large Print, [2021] Subjects 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.   Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9780593460016 (large print ; paperback) : 0593460014 (large print ; paperback) Description:  xii, 441 pages (large print) ; 24 cm Edition:  First large print edition. 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. Requests:  0 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   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Large Type LT 974.71004 Wang Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Large Type LT 974.71004 Wang Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Large Type LT 974.71004 Wang Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Large Type LT 974.71004 Wang Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Large Type LT 974.71004 Wang Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Bookmobile Large Type LT 974.7004 Wang Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList         Add Copy to MyList

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