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Disorientation - A Novel (Paperback)
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Disorientation - A Novel (Paperback)
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Loot Price R390
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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE SELECTION * A MALALA BOOK CLUB
PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A FAVORITE BOOK OF 2022 BY NPR AND BOOK
RIOT * A MUST-READ MARCH 2022 BOOK BY TIME, VANITY FAIR, EW AND THE
CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS * A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY
GOODREADS, NYLON, BUZZFEED AND MORE A Taiwanese American woman's
coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos
on a college campus in this outrageously hilarious and startlingly
tender debut novel. Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is
desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet
Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about "Chinese-y" things again. But
after years of grueling research, all she has to show for her
efforts are junk food addiction and stomach pain. When she
accidentally stumbles upon a curious note in the Chou archives one
afternoon, she convinces herself it's her ticket out of academic
hell. But Ingrid's in much deeper than she thinks. Her clumsy
exploits to unravel the note's message lead to an explosive
discovery, upending not only her sheltered life within academia but
her entire world beyond it. With her trusty friend Eunice Kim by
her side and her rival Vivian Vo hot on her tail, together they set
off a roller coaster of mishaps and misadventures, from book
burnings and OTC drug hallucinations, to hot-button protests and
Yellow Peril 2.0 propaganda. In the aftermath, nothing looks the
same to Ingrid-including her gentle and doting fiance, Stephen
Greene. When he embarks on a book tour with the super kawaii
Japanese author he's translated, doubts and insecurities creep in
for the first time... As the events Ingrid instigated keep
spiraling, she'll have to confront her sticky relationship to white
men and white institutions-and, most of all, herself. For readers
of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown,
this uproarious and bighearted satire is a blistering send-up of
privilege and power in America, and a profound reckoning of
individual complicity and unspoken rage. In this electrifying debut
novel from a provocative new voice, Elaine Hsieh Chou asks who gets
to tell our stories-and how the story changes when we finally tell
it ourselves.
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