so-soWhat begins as a straightforward account of her recollections (with a slightly wonky chronology, skipping back and forth, as memory often does) finally develops into something deeper in the last 40 or so pages, where Anna begins to honour the complexity of her upbringing and contextualise the trauma she endured. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/made-in-china-anna-qu/
pickAnna‘s father died when she was a baby. After her mother immigrated to the US from China, she remarried and had more children. Once Anna arrived, she was treated as a second-class child, beaten, and forced to work in the family sweatshop. This is the story of Anna‘s childhood and her eventual escape into college and graduate school. The chapters about her childhood were the most compelling, but the few about her adult life weren‘t as interesting.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️ Not solely a memoir, but a reminder of the forgotten female immigrant laborers. Mother and daughter moved to the US from China. Teenaged Anna is viewed as denouncing the family with her acculturated Americanness. She‘s mentally and physically abused, and forced into garment factory work (a sweatshop) in Queens, NY. One day, Anna contacts Child Protective Services - a brave move affecting the rest of her life.
pickA young Chinese immigrant calls Child Services on her parents. Like the threads whirling through her mother and stepfather‘s New York City sweatshop where she was forced to work as a girl, Anna Qu‘s debut memoir is full of the fragments of a traumatic childhood and the challenges of piecing together the truth—about trauma and the generational pattern of cruelty, but also about labor, identity, and ultimately, the love we deserve, awaiting us.
pickDeeply heart wrenching memoir about a Chinese immigrant who is working through her experiences as a Cinderella figure in her own home growing up (minus the prince). Speaks volumes about inter generational trauma, memory, truth, and culture. #ARC #netgalley
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor | 
