"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters. "Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay." An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's...

A social history of the borough of Brooklyn draws on first-person interviews to capture its diversity, institutions, and most noteworthy events, in a chronicle that includes discussions with such figures as Pete Hamill, Neil Sedaka, and Bruce Morrow.

Describes how two women, identical twins separated at birth, were reunited at the age of thirty-five and discovered that they had been separated as infants as part of a secret study on nature versus nurture, in a memoir of family and personal identity.

Shines a light on the incredible triumphs and tragedies that went into building the Brooklyn Bridge.