29-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is des perate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet\, Xiao-Wen Ch ou\, and never read about &ldquo\;Chinese-y&rdquo\; things again. But afte r four years of painstaking research\, she has nothing but anxiety and sto mach pain to show for her efforts. When she accidentally stumbles upon a s trange and curious note in the Chou archives\, she convinces herself it&rs quo\;s her ticket out of academic hell.
\nBut Ingrid&rsquo\;s in muc h deeper than she thinks. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the note&rsquo\;s message lead to an explosive discovery\, one that upends her entire life and the lives of those around her. With her trusty friend Eunice Kim by he r side and her rival Vivian Vo hot on her tail\, together they set off on a rollercoaster of mishaps and misadventures\, from campus protests and OT C drug hallucinations\, to book burnings and a movement that stinks of &ld quo\;Yellow Peril&rdquo\; propaganda.
\nIn the aftermath\, nothing l ooks quite the same to Ingrid&mdash\;including her gentle and doting fianc é\;\, Stephen Greene. When he embarks on a book tour with the &ldquo \;super kawaii&rdquo\; Japanese author he&rsquo\;s translated\, doubts and insecurities creep in. At the same time\, she finds herself drawn to the cool and aloof Alex Kim (even though she swears he&rsquo\;s not her type). As the events Ingrid instigated keep spiraling\, she confronts her sticky relationship to white men and white institutions&mdash\;and most of all\, herself.
\nAn uproarious and bighearted satire\, alive with sharp e dges\, immense warmth\, and a cast of unforgettable characters\, Disor ientation is both a blistering send-up of white supremacy in academia and a profound reckoning of a Taiwanese American woman&rsquo\;s complicit y and unspoken rage. In this electrifying debut novel from a provocative n ew voice\, Chou asks who gets to tell our stories&mdash\;and how the story changes when we finally tell it ourselves.
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