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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

Qu, Anna

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ISBN10: 1646221524
ISBN13: 9781646221523
Publisher: Catapult
Published: Aug 2 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future

A modern, insightful look at the often impossible situations immigrants must often do to survive. --Good Morning America

As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life.

Nearly twenty years later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan start-up, Qu requests her OCFS report. When it arrives, key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an abusive family to seeking dignity and meaning in work.

Traveling from Wenzhou to Xi'an to New York, Made in China is a fierce memoir unafraid to ask thorny questions about trauma and survival in immigrant families, the meaning of work, and the costs of immigration.

Anna's story shares a similar arc to the likes of Educated and The Glass Castle--memoirs with heroines who overcome seemingly insurmountable disadvantages through education and sheer will. --BOMB

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