Alexandra Chang is an American writer best known for her work Days of Distraction, released by Ecco Books in 2020.
It was a thrill to cover these companies and start-ups that were becoming a huge part of all our lives...Over time, I started to feel disillusioned with the job...I wanted to capture how it can be for a young woman of color in these predominantly white spaces, where the system is working against her in small and large ways, and how that affects her psyche and ability to continue contributing to those spaces.
She turns to Asian American history to try and rediscover her sense of self, confronting the question: What does it mean to exist in a society that does not notice or understand you?
"[9] O, The Oprah Magazine said Chang "transmutes millennial malaise into an astute meditation on identity in the age of algorithms with this deadpan novel of an Asian American journalist fighting to be truly seen—by both her employer and her white boyfriend.
"[16] Chang has a short story collection named Tomb Sweeping that was published in 2023 by Ecco Books.