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"Beautiful Country is the real deal. 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...

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Main Author: Wang, Qian Julie, 1987- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Wang, Qian Julie, > 1987- > Childhood and youth.
Chinese Americans > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Wang, Qian Julie, > 1987- > Family.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Illegal immigration > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Shijiazhuang Shi (China) > Biography.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • How it began
  • Home
  • Ascent
  • Dances and shadows
  • Type B
  • The beautiful country
  • Silk
  • Native speaker
  • Dumplings
  • Sushi
  • Lights
  • Chatham Square
  • Hair
  • Shopping day
  • McDonald's
  • Sleepover
  • Trapdoors
  • Solid ground
  • Auntie love
  • Normalcy
  • Marilyn
  • Graffiti
  • Julie
  • Hospital
  • Mothers
  • Surgery
  • Gifted
  • Graduation
  • Tamagotchi
  • Community
  • Gone
  • Home
  • How it begins.

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