Patriot Number One: A Chinese Rebel Comes to America - Lauren Hilgers

Descriere Patriot Number One: A Chinese Rebel Comes to America - Lauren Hilgers

\nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY \nNew York Times Critics - Wall Street Journal - Kirkus Reviews \nChristian Science Monitor - San Francisco Chronicle \n \nFinalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award \nShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize \nThe deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds \n \nIn 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman, the former owner of a small tea shop, and the spark that had sent his village into an uproar--pitting residents against a corrupt local government. Under the alias Patriot Number One, he had stoked a series of pro-democracy protests, hoping to change his home for the better. Instead, sensing an impending crackdown, Zhuang and his wife, Little Yan, left their infant son with relatives and traveled to America. With few contacts and only a shaky grasp of English, they had to start from scratch. \n \nIn Patriot Number One, Hilgers follows this dauntless family through a world hidden in plain sight: a byzantine network of employment agencies and language schools, of underground asylum brokers and illegal dormitories that Flushing's Chinese community relies on for survival. As the irrepressibly opinionated Zhuang and the more pragmatic Little Yan pursue legal status and struggle to reunite with their son, we also meet others piecing together a new life in Flushing. Tang, a democracy activist who was caught up in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, is still dedicated to his cause after more than a decade in exile. Karen, a college graduate whose mother imagined a bold American life for her, works part-time in a nail salon as she attends vocational school, and refuses to look backward. \n \nWith a novelist's eye for character and detail, Hilgers captures the joys and indignities of building a life in a new country--and the stubborn allure of the American dream.\n

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