A review by zhelana
Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

I was never quite able to forgive Julie for a scene in which her father throws her cat, an animal she had agreed to care for, out the window, and then instead of feeding it she throws a stick at it and yells at it to leave her alone. I mean other than that scene the book was great, but that made me so mad that I can't give this book more than three stars. Otherwise, the book follows the life of an illegal immigrant from China through working at sweat shops and going to school in a language she doesn't understand a word of up until she goes to college. It's informative and interesting. But I still can't get over that poor cat.