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Made in China : a memoir of love and labor / Anna Qu.

Qu, Anna, (author.).

Summary:
"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."--Amazon.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781646220342
  • ISBN: 164622034X
  • Physical Description: 215 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Catapult, 2021.
Subject: Qu, Anna.
Sweatshops > New York (State) > Biography.
Chinese > New York (State) > Biography.
Immigrants > New York (State) > Biography.
Mothers and daughters > New York (State) > Biography.
New York (State). Office of Family and Children Services.
Abused children > New York (State) > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 9 of 9 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Abington Community Library 92 QU (Text) 50687011735134 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cambria County Library 973.049 Q155m (Text) 85131001773812 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Highland Community Library 973.049 QU (Text) 35610000986674 HGHM Non-Fiction Available -
Parkland Community Library B QU QU (Text) 34422007237577 Adult Biography Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Bio Qu, A (Text) 33223008708561 Biography Available -
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Dimmick Main Library B QU (Text) 304441003402485 Balcony Available -
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Summary: "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."--Amazon.

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