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A Taiwanese American womans comingofconsciousness ignites eyeopening revelations and chaos on a college campus in this outrageously hilarious and startlingly tender debut novel
Twentynineyearold PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet XiaoWen Chou and never read about Chinesey things again But after years of grueling research all she has to show for her efforts are a junk food addiction and stomach pain When she accidentally stumbles upon a curious note in the Chou archives one afternoon it looks like her ticket out of academic hell
But Ingrids in much deeper than she thinks Her clumsy exploits to unravel the notes message lead to an explosive discovery upending her entire life and the lives of those around her What follows is a roller coaster of mishaps and misadventures from book burnings and OTC drug hallucinations to hotbutton protests and Yellow Peril 20 propaganda As the events Ingrid instigated keep spiraling shell have to confront her sticky relationship to white men and white institutionsand most of all herself
A blistering sendup of privilege and power and a profound reckoning of individual complicity and unspoken rage in Disorientation Elaine Hsieh Chou asks who gets to tell our storiesand how the story changes when we finally tell it ourselves
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