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.
Made in China capture[s] the confusion and wonder of lives spent looking ... Qu’s narrative is laced with bitterness and aching ... The struggle...seems to be holding all of these conflicting emotions at once ... Qu honor[s] these complexities, tell us we were not meant to swallow our pain and survive in this world without support systems.
Qu writes with clarity and restraint about her Cinderella-terrible childhood ... Qu's indelible account of her lonesome childhood should gain her everything she lacked then — confidants, witnesses and fans — who will cheer when she finally reconnects with a long-lost beloved.
[A] poignant memoir ... Vividly narrated and psychologically perceptive, Qu’s story uses family trauma to find perspective on immigration and perhaps even America itself.
