Esmé Weijun Wang

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Esmé Weijun Wang


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Esmé Weijun Wang is an award-winning mental health advocate and speaker, as well as a journalist and essayist. The Border of Paradise is her first novel. Just announced as the winner of the 2016 Graywolf Press Non-Fiction Prize for her book of essays, The Collected Schizophrenias. She lives in San Francisco.

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I Never Promised You a Rose...

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The Collected Schizophrenia...

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[Don't] Call Me Crazy

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The Border of Paradise

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Light Gets In: Living Well ...

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“Some people dislike diagnoses, disagreeably calling them, boxes and labels, but I've always found comfort in preexisting conditions; I like to know that I'm not pioneering an inexplicable experience.”
Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“Among psychiatric researchers, having a job is considered one of the major characteristics of being a high-functioning person. ... Most critically, a capitalist society values productivity in its citizens above all else, and those with severe mental illness are much less likely to be productive in ways considered valuable: by adding to the cycle of production and profit.”
Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“Hung on my bedroom wall is a quote attributed to Joan of Arc: "I am not afraid. I was born to do this." However my life unfolds, goes my thinking, is how I am meant to live it; however my life unspools itself, I was created to bear it.”
Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

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