"So, what I endeavored to do with my book was to speak heart-to-heart, and the childhood lens allowed me the perfect avenue to do so. My vision for my book was that it might allow readers to feel as if they were getting aboard a train, which would carry them through the terrain of my childhood—through that journey, they would be able to see new sights, yes, but also revisit some of their own experiences and familiar landscape. Through this, I hope, people might start to see that underneath the labels and political divides, none of us are all that different from each other, and that at bottom, we all want much of the same things: safety, community, and meaning."
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Qian Julie Wang
Qian Julie Wang (Chinese: 王乾) (born July 24, 1987) is a Chinese American writer and civil rights lawyer. She is known of her memoir Beautiful Country, which was published in 2021.
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