Sarah Wang’s debut novel New Skin in the PEN Ten spotlight
PEN America’s PEN Ten interview with Sarah Wang centers on her debut novel New Skin and themes of beauty standards and the modern immigrant experience in North America.
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Sarah Wang is on PEN America’s PEN Ten series. The interview focuses on her debut novel New Skin, published by Little, Brown in 2026 according to the intake notes, and on ideas the intake describes as the perilous side of the American dream and unrealistic beauty standards.
Wang appears in the intake as a rising Asian American writer worth tracking in Who’s Rising. The conversation is literary, but the themes connect to beauty, migration, and identity threads Goldscene already follows in other categories.
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