Debut Memoir by Michelle Yang Explores Life as a Third-Culture Immigrant

Ann Arbor Writer Michelle Yang came to the states as a child, after growing up in a Chinese family in South Korea. Her debut Memoir, Phoenix Girl: How a Fat Asian with Bipolar Found Love, is a warm, engrossing story of becoming unmoored, and finding connection and community, even as she’s fighting with fierce cultural pressures about her own body image and identity as a woman.

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Michelle Yang: author, Phoenix Girl: How a Fat Asian with Bipolar Found Love

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