{"product_id":"made-in-china-anna-qu-9781646220342","title":"Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A modern, insightful look at the often impossible situations immigrants must often do to survive.\" --\u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNearly twenty years later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan start-up, Qu requests her OCFS report. When it arrives, key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an abusive family to seeking dignity and meaning in work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTraveling from Wenzhou to Xi'an to New York, \u003ci\u003eMade in China\u003c\/i\u003e is a fierce memoir unafraid to ask thorny questions about trauma and survival in immigrant families, the meaning of work, and the costs of immigration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Anna's story shares a similar arc to the likes of \u003ci\u003eEducated\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/i\u003e--memoirs with heroines who overcome seemingly insurmountable disadvantages through education and sheer will.\" --\u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50123473551553,"sku":"9781646220342","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9781646220342.jpg?v=1775483581","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/made-in-china-anna-qu-9781646220342","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}