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Qian Julie Wang

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Born

in Shijiazhuang, China

Website

https://www.qianjuliewang.com

Twitter

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Genre

Memoir, Nonfiction

Influences

Angela's Ashes; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ...more

Member Since

July 2012

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Qian Julie was born in Shijiazhuang, China. At age 7, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, with her parents. For five years thereafter, the three lived in the shadows of undocumented life in New York City. Qian Julie's first book is a poignant literary memoir that follows the family through those years, as they grappled with poverty, manual labor in sweatshops, lack of access to medical care, and the perpetual threat of deportation.

A graduate of Yale Law School and Swarthmore College—where she juggled classes and extracurriculars with four part-time jobs—Qian Julie is now a litigator. She wrote Beautiful Country on her iPhone, during her subway commute to and from work at a national law firm, where she was elected to partnership within two yea ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 38,812 ratings · 4,521 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Beautiful Country 4.16 avg rating — 38,848 ratings — published 2021 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Qian Julie finished reading This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Qian Julie rated a book it was amazing Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
i tore through this within a day, while running after my toddler. it far exceeded my expectations. Burden’s writing is vulnerable and gut-wrenching, and more poetic than i expected. i liked the beautiful descriptions of the ospreys, which felt apt wi ...more
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“Why were we expected to speak English perfectly while praising Americans for even the clumsiest dribble of Chinese?”
― Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country

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“Ma Ma liked to say that a woman could be beautiful without being pretty, but that a woman could not be beautiful without having dignity. It would take me decades to unravel what that meant.”
― Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country

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“I put these stories to paper for this country's forgotten children, past and present, who grow up cloaked in fear, desolation, and the belief that their very existence is wrong, their very being illegal. I have been unfathomably lucky. But I dream of a day when being recognized as human requires no luck -- when it is a right, not a privilege. And I dream of a day when each and every one of us will have no reason to fear stepping out of the shadows.”
― Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country

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