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Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters. "Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay." An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's five years living undocumented after immigrating with her parents from China to New York City in 1994. In Chinese the word for the United States, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country," but when seven-year-old Qian is plucked from her warm and happy childhood surrounded by extended family in China, she finds a world of crushing fear and poverty instead. Unable to speak English at first, Qian is isolated and disregarded, put into special education classes because she doesn't speak the language and humiliated by teachers and classmates when she struggles to pay attention because of hunger or exhaustion. She encounters racism, and people of other races, for the first time, shocked at where her family fits in comparison to their status as educated elites in China. After school she works shifts alongside her mother in Chinatown sweatshops. There is so much about Qian's new home that doesn't make sense, but the rules of survival are drilled into her head: If you see a policeman, you must run in the other direction. If anyone asks--or even if they don't--you tell them you were born here. Do as you're told or we could be separated forever. Understanding implicitly the toll this has taken on her parents, Qian tries desperately to cheer them up and mediate their increasingly heated arguments, certain that if she is good enough, she can hold the family together. In remarkable, unsentimental prose Wang channels her childhood perspective, illuminating the cruelty and indignity of America's immigration system, while also crafting a narrative of resilience from her family's small moments of joy: their first slice of pizza, "shopping days" when the family would unearth unlikely treasures in Brooklyn's trash, and the necessary escape she found in books at the local library. Searing and unforgettable, Beautiful Country is an essential book about the cost of making a home in a hostile land from an astonishing new talent"-- $c Provided by publisher 505 00 $t How it begins. $t Home -- $t Ascent -- $t Dances and shadows -- $t Type B -- $t The beautiful country -- $t Silk -- $t Native speaker -- $t Dumplings -- $t Sushi -- $t Lights -- $t Chatham Square -- $t Hair -- $t Shopping day -- $t McDonald's -- $t Sleepover -- $t Trapdoors -- $t Solid ground -- $t Auntie love -- $t Normalcy -- $t Marilyn -- $t Graffiti -- $t Julie -- $t Hospital -- $t Mothers -- $t Surgery -- $t Gifted -- $t Graduation -- $t Tamagotchi -- $t Community -- $t Gone -- $t Home -- $t How it begins. 600 10 $a Wang, Qian Julie, $d 1987- $x Childhood and youth. 650 0 $a Chinese Americans $z New York $z New York $v Biography. 600 10 $a Wang, Qian Julie, $d 1987- $x Family. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z New York $z New York $v Biography. 650 0 $a Noncitizens $z New York $z New York $v Biography. 651 0 $a Shijiazhuang Shi (China) $v Biography. 651 0 $a Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Illegal immigration $z New York. $z New York. 650 6 $a AmeÌricains d'origine chinoise $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378258 $z New York $0 (CaQQLa)201-0468217 $z New York $0 (CaQQLa)201-0468217 $v Biographies. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378258 650 6 $a Immigration clandestine $0 (CaQQLa)201-0468217 $z New York. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0468217 $z New York. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0468217 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $x Asian & Asian American. $x Asian & Asian American. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $x Personal Memoirs. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Undocumented Immigrants. $2 ericd 650 7 $a Illegal immigration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02033296 650 7 $a Chinese Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00857249 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 $a Noncitizens. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00805278 650 7 $a Immigrants. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967712 651 7 $a China $z Shijiazhuang Shi. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01303242 651 7 $a New York (State) $z New York. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204333 651 7 $a New York (State) $z Brooklyn. $z Brooklyn. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01312516 650 7 $a Chinese Americans $v Biography. $2 sears 650 7 $a Immigrants $z New York (N.Y.) $v Biography. $2 sears 650 7 $a Illegal aliens $v Biography. $2 sears 651 7 $a Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) $v Biography. $2 sears 655 2 $a Autobiography $0 (DNLM)D020493 655 2 $a Biography $0 (DNLM)D019215 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000520 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20220620155015.0 $n 17 $p 1 LP 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0DC7B982F0CE11ECBB5FC64E213FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search