This Chinese-American Author Wants to Capture Youth in Her Debut Book

Xuan Juliana Wang’s debut book of short stories, “Home Remedies,” is split into three sections. It might seem like an effort to organize the tales — some fantastical and others rooted firmly in realism — into digestible categories. But Wang says it serves as a timeline of the past 10 years of her life. “When I laid out my book and looked at all the stories, I realized they fit into those categories,” she explains over the phone from her house in Los Angeles, where she’s recently moved from New York to be closer to her mother and father. “I wanted to signal to the reader that this is the journey of my 20s. It was a natural progression that had a lot to do with what I was obsessed with at that time.” The first part, “Family,” represents Wang’s frame of mind from her early 20s, when her parents were in the midst of a divorce, throwing how she perceived family into a tailspin; “Love,” touches on the heartbreak she experienced in relationships during her mid 20s, and her late 20s are characterized by “Time and Space,” when she began to question whether she knew any of the definitive answers

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