


Qian Julie's first book is a poignant literary memoir that follows the family through those years, as they grappled with poverty, manual labor in sweatshops, lack of access to medical care, and the perpetual threat of deportation.Ī graduate of Yale Law School and Swarthmore College-where she juggled classes and extracurriculars with four part-time jobs-Qian Julie is now a litigator. For five years thereafter, the three lived in the shadows of undocumented life in New York City. At age 7, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, with her parents. She wrote Beautiful Country on her iPhone, during her subway commute to and from work at a national law firm, where she was elected to partnership within two yea Qian Julie was born in Shijiazhuang, China. A graduate of Yale Law School and Swarthmore College-where she juggled classes and extracurriculars with four part-time jobs-Qian Julie is now a litigator.

Qian Julie's first book is a poignant literary memoir that follows the family through those years, as they grappled with poverty, manual labor in sweatshops, lack of access to medical care, and the perpetual threat of deportation. Qian Julie was born in Shijiazhuang, China.
