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

LL: I loved your line, Nevertheless, the library is my third parent—the American one, along with television.

You wrote about the books that impacted you growing up—Anne of Green Gables, Dragonwings, Amy Tan. Maxine Hong Kingston, to name a handful. What are you currently reading or what books are on your TBR list after your release day?

MY: I’m always reading! I know it’s perhaps not the hippest answer but I am currently on an Abbey Jimenez streak, along with the rest of America. Her books are a great escape and I’m marveling at how much mental health insight, the “medicine” if you will, she is wrapping in the “candy” of the romantic comedy. I hope that her books will do her readers a lot of good. The experiences of her characters resonate so much with my own life experiences.

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