Summer Book Club: Beautiful Country

Stone Catchers is sponsoring our second summer of reading. You can get a head start on your reading and join us each month for dinner and lively discussion.

Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

Thursday, August 24, 6:00 – 7:30 pm

The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world.

In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family

is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive.