Ultimately, she felt "constitutionally incapable of doing something other than what I want to do, simply because I'm supposed to do it" and made the decision to put together and publish Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood.

[2] The book collects Wang's diary entries, online posts, published essays and reviews, poems, conversations, lectures, and other written material in the span from 2006 to 2016.

Not satisfied with any of her recent plans for a book, Wang instead returned to Kapil's concept of an "almanac for extreme girlhood" with help from Chris Kraus at Semiotext(e).

[5] Similarly, Olivia Durif in Full Stop, appreciated Wang's rawness and called the book "radically different from most contemporary memoirs" and closer in kind to the creative nonfiction from "the dawn of the Maggie Nelson era—essays with lots of unanalyzed quotes from other essayists.

The Los Angeles Review of Books appreciated Wang's "wild teens-and-twenties tales and free-range groping toward gender theory".