bookkate 's review for:

Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang, Qian Julie Wang

DID NOT FINISH

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Audiobook. The story would be an interesting one, but it is put together in such a way that it is a compilation of many, many tiny details from her childhood, with very little added perspective or overarching view from her adult self. DNFed about half way through when I saw from other reviews that the book only spans until she turns 12 and they move to Canada. I would have liked to hear more of her life so far, experiences in Canada, getting in to University, what life is like now/how her adult life is shaped by these childhood experiences, but that is not the book she wrote. This is a detailed cataloging of childhood memories.