.VogueMagazine spoke to Kyle Lucia Wu about her debut novel, 'Win Me Something' and the blurry boundaries built into domestic labor.
, a carefully observed and subtly devastating meditation on the often porous lines between work and real life., Wu’s protagonist, Willa Chen, a solitary 20-something who’s been supporting herself in New York by working at a coffee shop, makes the switch to nannying for the Adriens, a wealthy downtown family.
I began working on this book when I was in graduate school, so it’s been about seven years. The book actually began as a linked story collection, but as I continued to work on it, certain parts kind of swelled in importance and others fell away. When I was in graduate school, I was working as a nanny for several different families around New York City.
Willa’s Chinese identity seems to be something that’s often on her mind, but it’s rarely acknowledged by the white family she works for, whereas members of their extended family seem aware of Willa’s race in a not-so-positive way. How did you calibrate those two different, yet related, approaches to race?
Willa seems, in so many ways, to be a very lonely person. What came first, Willa as nanny or Willa as observer of a world that she doesn’t really belong to?
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