Title Beautiful country : a memoir / by Qian Julie Wang.

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New York : Doubleday, [2021]

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Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	92 WANG	Storage
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	92 WANG	Storage
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	92 WANG	Check Shelf
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies	92 BIOGRAPHY WANG	Check Shelf
Bloomfield at the Atrium	BIOG. WANG, Q.	Check Shelf
Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction	B WANG, QIAN JULIE	Check Shelf
Canton Public Library - Adult Department	BIO WANG	Check Shelf
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level	BIOGRAPHY WANG	On Holdshelf
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Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department	B WANG Q.	On Display

Edition	First edition.
Description	x, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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
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.
Subject	Noncitizens. (OCoLC)fst00967153
	New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn. (OCoLC)fst01312516
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
	Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- -- Childhood and youth.
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- -- Family.
	Noncitizens -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
	New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
	Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
	Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Subject	Chinese Americans. (OCoLC)fst00857249
	Illegal immigration -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
	Shijiazhuang Shi (China) -- Biography.
	China -- Shijiazhuang Shi. (OCoLC)fst01303242
	Undocumented Immigrants.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural, Ethnic & Regional -- Asian & Asian American.
Local Subject	Undocumented immigration -- New York (State) -- New York.
Subject	Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies.
ISBN	9780385547215 (hardcover)
	0385547218 (hardcover)
	9780385547246 (ebook)

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