![]() That snowballed into what is now this book. It became rather popular and I received a lot of emails and kind comments. After that episode was over, I polished the essay and ended up finding a home for it on the Toast website. As a way of coping, I was writing about it, which became the essay Perdition Days. I was waiting around to see if my first novel would ever sell and I was experiencing a severe episode of psychosis. ![]() I had never planned to write a nonfiction book – I have an MFA in fiction. Why did you decide to write The Collected Schizophrenias ? Her New York Times-bestselling essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias, which steps both inside and outside of her condition to bring it to light, has just been published. ![]() She was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013 and late-stage Lyme disease in 2015. ![]() Wang was named a best young American novelist by Granta (2017) and is the recipient of a Whiting award (2018). Her first novel, The Border of Paradise (2016), explored mental illness, family and migration. Esmé Weijun Wang, 36, was born in Michigan to Taiwanese parents, has an MFA from the University of Michigan and now lives in San Francisco. ![]()
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