As Ba Ba retreats further inward, Qian has little to hold onto beyond his constant refrain: Whatever happens, say that you were born here, that you’ve always lived here. But then Qian’s headstrong Ma Ma collapses, revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor’s visit. And where there is delight to be found, Qian relishes it: her first bite of gloriously greasy pizza, weekly “shopping days,” when Qian finds small treasures in the trash lining Brooklyn’s streets, and a magical Christmas visit to Rockefeller Center - confirmation that the New York City she saw in movies does exist after all. Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops.

In China, Qian’s parents were professors in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world - an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent 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. You can read this before Beautiful Country: A Memoir PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Beautiful Country: A Memoir written by Qian Julie Wang which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang

A beautiful country a memoir