Perdition Days (originally published in The Toast).She said that she was inspired by The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon, and listened to Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey (she ended up including Del Rey in the book's acknowledgments). 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. She responded, "I had never planned to write a nonfiction book – I have an MFA in fiction. In an interview with The Guardian, Wang was asked what made her start writing the book. Talking to The Paris Review, she spoke about using her experience with mental illness in her fiction: "I wrote The Border of Paradise with the intent of writing about psychosis, hallucinations, et cetera, in a very visceral way that I hadn’t seen before." Wang is the author of the 2013 novel The Border of Paradise, a multi-generational family story of immigrants dealing with mental illness. Published by Graywolf Press, it won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, as well as the Whiting Award for Nonfiction. The Collected Schizophrenias is a 2019 collection of essays by Esmé Weijun Wang.
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