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A review by vickizliu
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang, Qian Julie Wang
3.0
"Half a century and a migration across the world later, it would take therapy’s slow and arduous unraveling for me to see that the thread of trauma was woven into every fiber of my family, my childhood."
Parts of her memoir really resonated with me as I also came to the US around the same age (although I was never undocumented) and had similar experiences of being completely uprooted from everything I knew. What could have elevated this to a 5-star read for me is more introspection or reflectiveness beyond just telling the story of her childhood. A humbling read nonetheless.
Parts of her memoir really resonated with me as I also came to the US around the same age (although I was never undocumented) and had similar experiences of being completely uprooted from everything I knew. What could have elevated this to a 5-star read for me is more introspection or reflectiveness beyond just telling the story of her childhood. A humbling read nonetheless.