"For me, Qian represents the self and the precocious, mischievous child who went from knowing only love and acceptance…"

"When I taught myself English on library books in the 90s, it was very difficult to find books that reflected me and m…"

"In our undocumented existence, it was unsafe for me to be fully honest about myself and my reality with any other rea…"

"The act of processing the memories I had suppressed for decades had freed me to see not just younger me, but the youn…"

"In books, both fiction and nonfiction, what matters is not what happens in the book but how is it is told. By virtue …"

"So, what I endeavored to do with my book was to speak heart-to-heart, and the childhood lens allowed me the perfect a…"

"The growth of Asian American pride is heartening. The young generations of immigrants, Asian Americans, undocumented …"

"I always wanted to share my story, even when I wasn’t talking about the past and didn’t tell anyone that I was undocu…"

"I feel that the act of writing the book in itself without even submitting it for publication was transformative. It a…"

"I live in daily gratitude for everything I have now that would have been unfathomable for Chinese immigrants not so l…"