The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie
Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early
2000s blog.
Compiled
as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report,
Alien Daughters Walk into
the Sun traces Jackie
Wang's trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and
highway bike rides to dropping out of an MFA program, becoming a
National Book Award finalist, and writing her trenchant book Carceral
Capitalism. Alien Daughters charts the dream-seeking misadventures of
an “odd girl” from Florida who emerged from punk houses and early
Tumblr to become the powerful writer she is today. Anarchic and
beautifully personal, Alien
Daughters is a strange
intellectual autobiography that demonstrates Wang's singular
self-education: an early life lived where every day and every written
word began like the Tarot's Fool, with a leap of faith.