In order to scrape a living together, her parents are forced to work in sweatshops – the effect continually felt on their marriage and Qian herself is left as an outsider at school with her limited English. Back in China, her parents were professors, but now in America they live illegally, in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities. When seven-year old Qian arrives in New York in 1994 from China, the reality of life in ‘Mei Guo’ is not the fairytale dream they had believed it to be.
The memoir offers a very real portrayal of life as an undocumented child living in poverty in America. īeautiful Country is one of the break-out debuts of 2021, written by an incredibly fresh talent and new voice – Qian Julie Wang. Beautiful Country – the breathtaking memoir by Qian Julie Wang – is a devastatingly real portrayal of life as an undocumented child living in America, an astonishing debut from a fresh new voice and talent.
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