LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!“One of the funniest books of the year…a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire.” —The Washington PostFrom the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Saf
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play―by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.Willis Wu doe
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we a
The Sellout meets Interior Chinatown in this satirical debut about a German Indian student whose world is upended when she discovers that her beloved professor who passed for Indian is, in fact, white.Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student is, in awe of her supervisor―superstar postcolonial and race studies professor Saraswati. But her life and sense of self are turned upside down when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Nivedita’s praise of Saraswati during a radio interview just hours before the news breaks―and before she learns the truth―calls into question her own reputation as a young activist. Following the uproar, Nivedita is forced to reflect on the key moments in her life, when she doubted her identity and her place in the world. As debates on the scandal rage on social media, blogs, and among her closest friends, Nivedita’s assumptions are called into question as she reconsiders the lessons she learned from her adored professor.In her
