mikolee 's review for:

Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

3.0

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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.