Disorientation
Read by
Jennifer Kim
Release:
03/22/2022
Runtime:
11h 46m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“The funniest, most poignant novel of the year.”
Vogue
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick in Fiction
A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A BookRiot Pick of 2022
A Time Magazine Pick of Must-Reads
An Entertainment Weekly “Must Read”
A Vanity Fair Hot Type
A Chicago Review of Books Pick of Best Reads
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE BOOK * NYPL YOUNG LIONS FINALIST * THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR FINALIST * SHORTLISTED FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD * A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY NPR, VOGUE, JEZEBEL AND BOOK RIOT * INDIE NEXT PICK * MALALA BOOK CLUB PICK * A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK 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 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 Ingrid’s in much deeper than she thinks. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the note’s 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 hot-button protests and Yellow Peril 2.0 propaganda. 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.
A blistering send-up 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 stories—and how the story changes when we finally tell it ourselves.
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 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 Ingrid’s in much deeper than she thinks. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the note’s 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 hot-button protests and Yellow Peril 2.0 propaganda. 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.
A blistering send-up 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 stories—and how the story changes when we finally tell it ourselves.
Release:
2022-03-22
Runtime:
11h 46m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593555873
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
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