Wonderful country. Always lying that she was born here. Van Ts.D.

For fans of the bestseller “Student” and the series “Everything is everywhere and at once.”

more than 3800 reviews on Amazon. The bestseller New York Times.

from the Chinese language, the word denoting America - May, translates as a "beautiful country." But when in 1994, seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York, her life turns into Hell. In China, parents of Qian were professors, in America they are illegal without documents living in constant fear of being deported.

Praise memoirs about growing up a girl who is not at all children's problems, but does not lose faith in a bright future and In small steps, he goes to his dream.

Qian Julie Van graduated from the Law Faculty of Yale University. The managing partner of the law firm Gottlieb & Wang LLP. Her articles appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar. Lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two dogs.