Beautiful Country: A Memoir Homeschool Val Kilmer has played many

Val Kilmer has played many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade film career

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (May 13

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Beautiful Country: A Memoir Homeschool Val Kilmer has played manyAn incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to beautiful country. Yet when seven year old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qians parents were professors; in America, her