Wan gives an interview about the 23-year-long “thrilling roller coaster ride” from writing her novel, to getting it published in 2013, to seeing it adapted as a new streaming series. The Partner Track follows a young Asian American lawyer as she competes to rise through the ranks at a New York law firm.
Speaking with columnist Renwei Chung, Wan praises the Netflix adaptation of her novel as “smart, sexy, savvy” and “a fairly successful combination of ‘Hollywood entertainment’ and verisimilitude.” The author talks about drawing inspiration from the 1988 film Working Girl and from the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, whose life story Wan compares to that of her own mother.
The interview also addresses the representation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the media, and how to support the telling of more AAPI-centered stories. “If you really love something, and you believe it’s a story worth telling, and you wish there were more stories like it out there,” says Wan, “then you gotta put your money where your mouth is. Watch the show. Buy the book. Go see the play or movie. And tell all your friends and neighbors!”
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