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KAREN’S BOOK REVIEW

Beautiful Country

★★★★★

Reviewed October 20, 2022 · Memoir & Nonfiction

In 1994, at seven years old Qian lands in New York on a plane from China with her Ma Ma (mother). A precocious little girl, she was anxious beyond belief to see her Ba Ba (father) who had arrived a few years earlier promising with every phone call a better life in the beautiful country, Mei Guo (America). In Chinatown the undocumented threesome struggle for…

Published by Doubleday

Happy reading,
Karen