Disorientation

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Going nowhere in her PhD, Ingrid Yang has hit a wall: she can't find anything original to write about the late canonical poet, Xiao-Wen Chou. As the deadline for her dissertation nears, insomnia and stomach pain plague her, she becomes increasingly addicted to over-the-counter medicine and her only comfort is her doting fiancé Stephen, a Japanese-to-English translator who is chasing his own literary fame. Just when Ingrid is about to lose hope, she stumbles upon a curious note in an archive box - a note which she desperately hopes can lead her out of her predicament. But far from solving all her existing problems, the note and Ingrid's mission to decode it bring with them a whole host of new ones: Xiao-Wen Chou, the so-called father of Chinese American poetry, was not who he said he was, and the powerful conspiracy to conceal his true identity may go higher up than Ingrid thinks. Just when Ingrid's career seems to be unravelling, a shocking discovery about Stephen makes her the very foundations of who she is. As the events and Ingrid's grip on them rapidly spiral out of control, she will have to reconcile her relationship to white men, white institutions and white supremacy. But she will also have to confront her own identity, biases and memories she'd rather forget in order to free herself.An uproarious satire in the vein of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Elif Batuman's The Idiot, Disorientation is both a send-up of white liberalism and academia, and a reckoning of Asian-American complicity and unspoken rage. Chou unabashedly tackles identity politics, cultural appropriation and the intersection of race and desire, while also capturing one woman's journey to self-awareness.