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Beautiful Country
- A Memoir
- Narrado por: Qian Julie Wang
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts listeners in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world.
"Extraordinary.... Consider this remarkable memoir a new classic." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
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, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal”, and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive.
In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. And where there is delight to be found, Qian relishes it: her first bite of gloriously greasy pizza, weekly “shopping days”, when Qian finds small treasures in the trash lining Brooklyn’s streets, and a magical Christmas visit to Rockefeller Center - confirmation that the New York City she saw in movies does exist after all.
But then Qian’s headstrong Ma Ma collapses, revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor’s visit. As Ba Ba retreats further inward, Qian has little to hold onto beyond his constant refrain: Whatever happens, say that you were born here, that you’ve always lived here.
Inhabiting her childhood perspective with exquisite lyric clarity and unforgettable charm and strength, Qian Julie Wang has penned an essential American story about a family fracturing under the weight of invisibility, and a girl coming of age in the shadows, who never stops seeking the light.
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping, She Reads, and more • One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year
“Incredibly important, exquisitely written, harrowing. . . Beautiful Country tells [Wang’s] story, well, quite beautifully. It is not only Wang’s mastery of the language that makes the story so compelling, but also the passionate yearning for empathy and understanding. Beautiful Country is timely, yes, but more importantly it is a near-masterpiece that will make Qian Julie Wang a literary star.”—Shondaland
“A coming-of-age memoir about an undocumented Chinese girl growing up in New York's Chinatown, this lyrical book is full of small moments of joy, heartbreaking pain and the struggles of a family trying to survive in the shadows of society. It's a uniquely American story, and an essential one.”—Good Housekeeping
“A heartbreaking and intimate memoir... the storytelling from a young Qian’s perspective is riveting.”—Politico
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All genres considered, the memoir is among the most difficult and complex for a writer to pull off. After all, giving voice to your own lived experience and recounting deeply painful or uncomfortable memories in a way that still engages and entertains is a remarkable feat. These autobiographies, often narrated by the authors themselves, shine with raw, unfiltered emotion sure to resonate with any listener. But don't just take our word for it—queue up any one of these listens, and you'll hear exactly what we mean.
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We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made - and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests.
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As relevant as it is heart-wrenching
- De Anonymous User en 10-18-21
De: Imbolo Mbue
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Good Apple
- Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York
- De: Elizabeth Passarella
- Narrado por: Jill Blackwood
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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Elizabeth Passarella grew up in Memphis in a conservative Republican family with a Christian mom and a Jewish dad. Then she moved to New York, fell in love with the city - and, eventually, her husband - and changed. Sort of. While her politics have tilted to the left, she still puts her faith first - and argues that the two can go hand in hand, for what it’s worth. In this sharp and slyly profound memoir, Elizabeth shares stories and upends stereotypes about Southerners, New Yorkers, and Christians, making a case that we are all flawed humans simply doing our best.
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Like nails on a chalkboard.
- De PortlandLisa en 01-23-21
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The Sea, the Sea
- De: Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie - introduction
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 21 h
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Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.
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Murdoch Amazes
- De Sara en 08-30-17
De: Iris Murdoch, y otros
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When We Caught Fire
- De: Anna Godbersen
- Narrado por: Suzanne Elise Freeman
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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It’s 1871, and Emmeline Carter is poised to take Chicago’s high society by storm. Between her father’s sudden rise to wealth and her recent engagement to Chicago’s most eligible bachelor, Emmeline has it all. But she can’t stop thinking about the life she left behind, including her childhood sweetheart, Anders Magnuson. Fiona Byrne, Emmeline’s childhood best friend, is delighted by her friend’s sudden rise to prominence, especially since it means Fiona is free to pursue Anders herself. But when Emmeline risks everything for one final fling with Anders, Fiona feels completely betrayed.
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Solid Work But Not What I Signed Up For
- De Mary en 12-04-23
De: Anna Godbersen
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Summerlings
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Howorth
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
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It’s the summer of 1959 in the seemingly tranquil suburbs of Washington, DC. But our young narrator, John, and his best friends, Ivan and Max, know the truth: Every door on their street could be hiding an escaped Nazi or a spy. The entire city is being plagued by an inexplicable spider infestation - surely evidence of "insect warfare" by the Russians! So when a rare vinegaroon - a whip scorpion - is discovered and sequestered for museum study, the boys, along with their tomboy accomplice, Beatriz, hatch a risky midnight plan to steal the poisonous creature.
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Wonderfully sweet and nostalgic tale of adolescence.
- De Wajo en 09-02-20
De: Lisa Howorth
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The Seven Longest Yards
- Our Love Story of Pushing the Limits While Leaning on Each Other
- De: Chris Norton, Emily Norton, Mark Tabb - contributor, y otros
- Narrado por: Jakob Lewis, Madison Lawrence, John Behrens - foreword
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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Quadriplegics simply do not walk again - yet millions watched as Chris Norton defied incredible odds and took step by impossible step across his graduation stage. With his fiancée, Emily, by his side, those unbelievable steps became the start of an extraordinary journey for them both. Told from both of their unique perspectives, this moving story invites you to find, as Chris and Emily have, that God can transform our lowest points into life's greatest gifts.
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Inspirational and Encouraging
- De foleya en 07-11-19
De: Chris Norton, y otros
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Lab Girl
- A Memoir
- De: Hope Jahren
- Narrado por: Hope Jahren
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but it is also so much more. Because in it, Jahren also shares with us her inspiring life story, in prose that takes your breath away.
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A paradigm-shifting perspective on plant life
- De Elizabeth en 05-20-16
De: Hope Jahren
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The Eulogist
- A Novel
- De: Terry Gamble
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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From the author of The Water Dancers and Good Family, an exquisitely crafted novel, set in Ohio in the decades leading to the Civil War, that illuminates the immigrant experience, the injustice of slavery, and the debts human beings owe to one another, witnessed through the endeavors of one Irish-American family.
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Cassandra Campbell brought this book alive.
- De PATTY C. en 04-27-23
De: Terry Gamble
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Aria
- A Novel
- De: Nazanine Hozar
- Narrado por: Neeky Dalir
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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It is the 1950s in a restless Iran, a country rich in oil but deeply divided by class and religion. The government is unpopular and corrupt and under foreign sway. One night, an illiterate army driver hears the pitiful cry of a baby abandoned in an alley and menaced by ravenous wild dogs. He snatches up the child and takes her home, naming her Aria - the first step on an unlikely path from deprivation to privilege. Over the next two decades, the orphan girl acquires three mother figures whose secrets she will learn only much later.
De: Nazanine Hozar
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- Ione Harrington
- 11-03-21
America NOT SO beautiful
I thought we had come so far as Americans but reading this makes me wonder what really goes on that we close our eyes to as people enter this country looking for a better life!!
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- barbara
- 10-12-22
A long childhood
This book made me realize that I don’t love memoirs based almost solely on one’s early childhood. I love children but their blow by blow childhood memories are not the stuff of books I enjoy. Some of the cultural aspects of this childhood were interesting but overall the book is sad.
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- Darlene Bennett
- 09-15-21
Makes Me Sad
Sorry to think your experience here was so painful. My parents were immigrants from Germany in the early 1900s. There’s was a wonderful experience. The difference was they had someone here who cared about them and help them get started. That’s what every newcomer needs I’m happy to say my experience here as a first generation American has been profound and beautiful.
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- Jayep99
- 10-31-21
Great story!
What a very interesting book but it’s also very sad most of the time. You can’t believe that a little 6 year old girl hast to go through so much !!! Certain parts are absolutely going to break your heart so be prepared!!!
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- Thomas A. Siewert
- 12-16-21
Beautiful Country, Beautiful Memoir!
What amazes me most about this book is the detail she uses in her descriptions of the life they forged in their new country, but it's detail from a little girl perspective. It makes me wonder if she was writing a journal or diary at the time, because as an adult many people lose that childhood perspective, but she wrote in such viscerally childlike language at times that it really puts you in her shoes in a way few adult books can. Even though the subject matter is often difficult to hear, her perspective is still in a way refreshing, interesting. It's a beautifully written account of the difficulties of the immigrant experience in the US, and in an age of so much anti-immigrant sentiment, it's an important reminder of just how hard it is to come to a new country with basically nothing and begin a new life. Also for me personally, I'm a white American married to a Chinese woman and living in China, and there was so much I could relate to from a cultural perspective as well. All around, a highly recommended book with great narration by the author.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-18-22
Incredible Story
I love how the gifted author could describe her experiences through a child’s eyes. Profoundly meaningful story that addresses so many issues undocumented people face.
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- Loree Foreman
- 09-28-21
Awesome Book
The author describes what it was like for her coming to the US from China at seven years old. She was terrified of being deported everyday. There were some teachers who didn’t believe she was smart because she was Chinese and poor. Her parents were professors in China, but couldn’t get equivalent work in the US. America misses out on great contributions by immigrants because of the way immigration is handled here.
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- Deby Brown
- 10-25-21
Awesome
I loved this audible! I didn't want her to stop. I loved everything about this book.
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- Yamato Akimoto
- 11-13-21
Loved it
So relatable. Great story telling. Felt like I was reliving my own childhood. We are not alone.
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- Nina D.
- 01-30-22
Insightful, moving memoir
Would recommend this memoir to all HS and college students in social studies or American history. Story of a Chinese child who is an undocumented immigrant in NY. Told from the perspective of the author as a young person, the book captures the range of experiences, fears and emotions of someone who is undocumented and living in poverty. I couldn’t put it down.
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