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4.25 AVERAGE
4.25 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Wow. This memoir blew me away. Qian Julie does an amazing job communicating how it was like as an immigrant to Chinatown, living in poverty, working in sweatshops, and the difficulties her family faced through it all. Her story of coming from that, finding love for books and education, to becoming a lawyer and an advocate and who she is today is so inspiring. Pick up this book and read it.
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.5 stars. I really liked this book and I think it would have a stronger impact on me if I had more time to read it in larger chunks. I would read a page or two and not get back to it for a week or so so it was kind of disjointed. But, when I finally made time to read this book, it was beautiful and sad and depressing and so good.
5 stars. I devoured this memoir. Qian Julie Wang wrote an incredible memoir from her point of view as a child. As devastating as this story is, I was fascinated by her innocence and what she observed, felt, and experienced as a kid. Children are so resilient. I loved reading her family’s voices in Mandarin Chinese. I wanted so badly to read about her experience as a teenager, young adult, and adult. But this memoir is so strong because it’s about her childhood. I feel in a daze after reading this. So much intergenerational trauma.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced