How Michelle Yang’s Journey as a Fat Asian Woman with Bipolar Defied All Odds to Find True Love in Phoenix Girl

How Michelle Yang’s Journey as a Fat Asian Woman with Bipolar Defied All Odds to Find True Love in Phoenix Girl

Writing this memoir has changed me in making me more confident and unashamed. It helped me reject the internalized stigma that I had been carrying in so many aspects of my life.

LL: I think writers are always interested in endings. We are writing about our lives, which are still unfolding, so the ending point isn’t really clear. How did you know the book had reached its ending?

MY: From the outset, I wanted to end in a place of progress and hope. Where I ended felt really right for me… so much so that I can’t even remember when I didn’t have that ending, through all my 12 drafts.

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