Overview
A Taiwanese American womanās 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 āChinese-yā 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 itās her ticket out of academic hell.
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But Ingridās in much deeper than she thinks. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the noteās 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.
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In the aftermath, nothing looks the same to Ingridāincluding her gentle and doting fiancĆ©, Stephen Greene. When he embarks on a book tour with the super kawaii Japanese author heās translated, doubts and insecurities creep in for the first timeā¦ As the events Ingrid instigated keep spiraling, sheāll have to confront her sticky relationship to white men and white institutionsāand, most of all, herself.
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For readers of Paul Beattyās The Sellout and Charles Yuās 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 storiesāand how the story changes when we finally tell it ourselves.
This book title, Disorientation (A Novel) - 9780593298374, ISBN: 9780593298374, by Elaine Hsieh Chou, published by Penguin Publishing Group (March 21, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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