A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-wort
This wonderful book (written by my friend) is out today and I very much would love if people would read it.
Here is a fantastic review:
Threads connect, but they also unravel. When they do, the process is messy, intricate, and in its own way, a kind of becoming. In Anna Qu’s
“This is a memoir about love and labor, and Qu pushes those two ideas to the forefront. The complex relationship between Qu and her mother is one that’s mirrored by the complicated relationship between Qu’s body and work. Labor in Made in China is fraught with tension as Qu connects different historical labor experiences to her own. Anna witnesses her startup’s disintegration and reflects on how workers so often define themselves by their work, and must pay the price. Her words are full of keen insights. They compel the reader to re-examine the roles that authority plays in socially accepted narratives. Made in China is dynamic, a subversive and yet inherently personal piece of work that asserts the nature of Qu’s identity beyond it. In this memoir, Qu doesn’t conform to labels. She rips off the tags others have created for her and creates her own. “
