I decided to embark on writing this when I became a citizen in May 2016, six months before the election. QIAN JULIE WANG: It was very difficult at first because these years were years that I never allowed myself to think about or talk about for decades, because my parents and society told me that it had been bad and I would have gotten in trouble if I ever talked about it. SARAH NEILSON: How did you access and embody your childhood voice in the book? Shondaland spoke with Wang over Zoom about education, equity, and her relationship to work, play, and joy. During that time, she and her parents navigated school, sweatshop work, poverty, and a lack of access to basic needs like medical care - the trauma inflicted by a country bent on dehumanizing people it deems “illegal.” But Wang’s world was also filled with imagination, love, and discovery, and Beautiful Country vibrates on every level of nuance and storytelling. At age 7, Wang moved with her academic parents from China to Brooklyn, where they lived undocumented for five years. A graduate of Yale Law School and currently a litigator and managing partner of Gottlieb & Wang LLP, Wang is also a skilled writer, rendering her childhood in rhapsodic sentences that immerse the reader in her experience. Reading Qian Julie Wang’s debut memoir, Beautiful Country, you wouldn’t know it’s her first book.
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