“Beautiful Country” | Courtesy of Doubleday Books 7, captures her first five years in the United States and presents it generously through the naive, yet poignant, lens of her childhood eyes. Wang’s memoir “Beautiful Country,” published on Sept. The tumultuous journey of the two of them - undocumented Chinese immigrants joining Wang’s father who had lived in New York for two years - foreshadows the next five years of Wang’s life, from age 7 to 12.ĭuring those five years living in Brooklyn, Wang’s family lived in hei, in the dark, navigating undocumented life through blue-collar jobs with poor wages, subjection to racist stereotypes and a profound paranoia of their undocumented status being discovered. We do not share data with third party vendors.ĭuring Qian Julie Wang’s flights from Shijiazhuang, China, to Beijing to New York City, her mother was hellishly motion sick. Get Jewish Exponent's Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories
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