Anna Qu, MADE IN CHINA: A Memoir of Love and Labor
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Zibby is joined by debut memoirist Anna Qu to discuss Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor, which is out today. The two discuss the trauma endured during Qu's childhood, how she managed to reconcile her memory with government documents that didn't tell her full story, and why she remains incredibly grateful for those who saw her value when her family did not.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
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| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | Anna Q is the author of Made in China, a memoir of love and labor. Anna is a Chinese American writer whose work has |
| 0:45.3 | appeared in the Three Penny Review, Lumina, Cartica Review, Qualley Journal, Volume 1, Brooklyn, |
| 0:50.7 | and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn. This is her |
| 0:56.2 | first book. Welcome, Anna, thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss |
| 1:02.1 | Made in China, a Memoir of Love and Labor. Hi, Zibi. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited. This is my |
| 1:09.5 | first podcast interview. Yeah. I feel like |
| 1:13.3 | Publiss has put me first for a lot of authors because it's like a very, it's like a gentle, |
| 1:19.1 | you know, introduction or something. That's great. I like that. So everybody else will ask you |
| 1:26.5 | this as well. So you might as well have a good |
| 1:28.0 | answer ready. But what is your book about? Thank you for asking. Well, a made in China, |
| 1:34.3 | memoir of love and labor is my first book. It's a memoir. And, you know, it really centers around |
| 1:41.9 | one single moment. And it's the perceived betrayal of pulling child services |
| 1:48.6 | on my family after they put me to work at their sweatshop in Queens, New York. And so the book |
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