Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang (王乾)

Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood

Qian Julie Wang (王乾)

277 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced

Description

In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is 'illegal.' Qian is seven when she moves to America, the 'Beautiful Country', where she and her parents find that the roads of New York City are not paved with gold, but crushin...

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emotional 85%
reflective 71%
sad 54%
inspiring 38%
challenging 35%
hopeful 30%
informative 25%
dark 15%
tense 15%
adventurous 4%
funny 3%

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slow 15%
fast 9%

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