A review by annexelizabeth
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

lyrical and heartbreaking. this memoir is beautifully written and painfully honest about the realities of poverty, immigration, and the pains of coming of age, and i am glad that i read it. qian julie wang writes with emotional clarity and vivid detail, and the people and places and things in these years of her childhood are rendered in exquisite detail. she paints her mother and father in particular in a lens that is both loving and critical, something that i really appreciated. the final chapter of this memoir did feel a little bit rushed, but honestly that's my only criticism of this book. overall, i really loved it and count it as a new favorite