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A review by pun1sher
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
4.75
I've realized that i hate rating memoirs. Have can i rate the story of somebody's life time on a 1 to 5 scale?
It's impossible to call "Beautiful country" a good book. How could I ever call a testimony of poverty and drama, and the crooked American dream good? It's hard to get through but it's full of very true and raw passages that I imagine are true for all immigrants in America. If you grew up around kids who looked like you and spoke like you, you will learn how lucky you were. If you didn't, "Beautiful country" will hold you while you mourn your own child body.
These 300 something pages hold more hardships than I have ever lived through, and it's my duty to soak up stories of people like Qian Julie Wang, who didn't have what I did
It's impossible to call "Beautiful country" a good book. How could I ever call a testimony of poverty and drama, and the crooked American dream good? It's hard to get through but it's full of very true and raw passages that I imagine are true for all immigrants in America. If you grew up around kids who looked like you and spoke like you, you will learn how lucky you were. If you didn't, "Beautiful country" will hold you while you mourn your own child body.
These 300 something pages hold more hardships than I have ever lived through, and it's my duty to soak up stories of people like Qian Julie Wang, who didn't have what I did
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Medical content
Poverty, failing marriage, generational trauma