A review by readtotheend
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

In this memoir, Wang shares her experiences of being a young undocumented immigrant child in America. Wang moves from China to NY and talks about her experiences from age 7 to 6th grade.  Learning new language, customs, navigating school and a hard and hungry home life were big changes for Wang and many other immigrants.  TV and books became her first friends and I think that rings true for many immigrant kids. I learned to speak English from watching Sesame Street myself!  I think living in the shadows and the fear of being found out by authorities is clearly described through Wang's experiences and it made me think of all the children who don't have a say in coming to America but have to live with the consequences of their parents' actions. This was good in audio format as well as in print, recommend either.