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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

Maybe someday

49

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

30/100

Critics

67/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Anna Qu

Publisher:

Catapult

Date:

August 3, 2021

A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future.

What The Reviewers Say

Chanel Miller,
New York Times Book Review
Made in China capture[s] the confusion and wonder of lives spent looking.
Jenny Shank,
The Star Tribune
Qu writes with clarity and restraint about her Cinderella-terrible childhood.
Brendan Driscoll,
Booklist
[A] poignant memoir.
Barbara Bamberger Scott,
Bookreporter
... lively.