A young Chinese immigrant calls Child Services on her mother. Like the threads whirling through her mother and stepfather’s New York City sweatshop where she was forced to work as a girl, Anna Qu’s debut memoir is full of the fragments of a traumatic childhood and the challenges of piecing together the truth—about trauma and the generational pattern of cruelty, about immigration and identity, labor and self-worth, and ultimately, the love we deserve, awaiting us.
Made in China by Anna Qu, (List Price: 26, Catapult, 9781646220342, August 2021)
Reviewed by Megan Bell, Underground Books in Carrollton, Georgia