Beautiful Country: A Memoir PH23-4

Beautiful Country: A Memoir PH23-4An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to beautiful country. Yet when seven year old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qians parents were professors; in America, her

William Travis

working so close to the town's criminal fringes that he sometimes seems a part of them

it's far from dull

They see America’s culture of rights as a façade that merely reinforces traditional hierarchies of power

Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education

a decorated Iraq war vet

bar-headed goose

Her story is about loss

Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects

making all those around him feel sleepy

Here’s what you’ll find inside:

Against her better judgment