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Esmé Weijun Wang is an American writer. Her books include The Border of Paradise (2016) and The Collected Schizophrenias (2019), she is the recipient of a Whiting Award, and she has been named a Best Young American Novelist by Granta magazine.

Wang initially attended Yale University but transferred to Stanford University, from which she graduated in 2006. She received her MFA degree from the University of Michigan, and her thesis became the basis for a chapter in her first novel.

Wang's first book, a novel titled The Border of Paradise, was published in 2016. It is a gothic family drama about a family whose patriarch has committed suicide, leaving the mother to raise her two children alone. She “enacts her own version of tong yang xi — an old-fashioned Chinese tradition of families adopting poor girls so that they may be raised alongside their sons and eventually married to them” by encouraging her son and her step-daughter to become involved. The Chicago Review of Books noted the careful handling of mental illness in each of the characters, concluding that "the novel raises interesting questions about child rearing, culture, and isolation".