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Author Qu, Anna, author.

Title Made in China : a memoir of love and labor / Anna Qu.

Publication Info. New York : Catapult, [2021]
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 QU    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY QU    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. QU, A.    Storage
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO QU    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY QU    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY QU, ANNA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B QU    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B QU ANNA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO QU    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B QU, ANNA    Check Shelf

Description 215 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly twenty years later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan start-up, Qu requests her OCFS report. When it arrives, key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an abusive family to seeking dignity and meaning in work. Traveling from Wenzhou to Xi'an to New York, Made in China is a fierce memoir unafraid to ask thorny questions about trauma and survival in immigrant families, the meaning of work, and the costs of immigration."--Amazon.
Subject Qu, Anna.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Chinese -- United States -- Biography.
Immigrants -- China -- Biography.
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
Sweatshops -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Clothing trade -- New York (State) -- New York -- Anecdotes.
Abused children -- United States -- Biography.
New York (State). Office of Family and Children Services.
Abused children. (OCoLC)fst00794809
Chinese. (OCoLC)fst00857169
Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
Sweatshops. (OCoLC)fst01139991
New York (State) (OCoLC)fst01210280
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
ISBN 9781646220342 (hardcover)
164622034X (hardcover)
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