A collection of diary entries, essays and reflections from the American poet and scholar. Wang is one of the foremost writers on race, prisons and political surveillance. These writings – breathless, sensitive, often pretty bonkers – chart her intellectual and emotional maturity, from raving teen to celebrated academic.
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
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