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4.25 AVERAGE
4.25 AVERAGE
Trigger warning : Animal Abuse
what I really liked:
Beautiful Country is a raw, heartbreaking, yet captivating memoir. I was completely immersed as soon as I read the prologue at the beginning. Reading how when things got bad in the author’s life, she would dream she would write her family’s stories down so others like them would know they were not alone and they, too, could be survivors, pulled at my heart and emotions strongly.
What I didn't care for :
Wang only writes about her life until she’s in the sixth grade. The last chapter is an insanely quick summary of her life after she was a tween. I’m sorry but a memoir doesn’t end at 12 years-old... So I removed a star for that.
what I really liked:
Beautiful Country is a raw, heartbreaking, yet captivating memoir. I was completely immersed as soon as I read the prologue at the beginning. Reading how when things got bad in the author’s life, she would dream she would write her family’s stories down so others like them would know they were not alone and they, too, could be survivors, pulled at my heart and emotions strongly.
What I didn't care for :
Wang only writes about her life until she’s in the sixth grade. The last chapter is an insanely quick summary of her life after she was a tween. I’m sorry but a memoir doesn’t end at 12 years-old... So I removed a star for that.
This memoir is told from such an honest perspective, it gave me additional insight to the constant stress an 'undocumented' American goes through daily.
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The word for America in Chinese (Mei Guo) means 'beautiful country'. This memoir features Qian's life in NYC, freshly arrived from China, as a young woman and beyond. Her parents, both professors in China, now labor in sweatshops. This is a lovely memoir- Qian Julie Wang delivers a raw, emotional look into her childhood, as she learns a new language, makes her first American friends, and discovers who she is in this beautiful, new country. I laughed, I cried, and now I recommend. 4.5☆
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It was good but her writing was a little difficult to follow I think because it was through the lens of her thought processes as a child.
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Memoir of young first generation Chinese American growing up in poverty in NYC. Really gave insight into the trauma of a child growing up worrying about food, fitting in and taking care of her parents. Admittedly I put this book down and picked back up several times because the challenges of poverty were sometimes hard to take. But the authors remarkable growth is pretty amazing.