{"product_id":"9780593298374","title":"Disorientation","description":"\u003cb\u003eNYPL Young Lions Finalist * Shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * A New York Times Editors’ Choice Book * A Best Book of 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Jezebel and Book Riot * A Malala Book Club Pick * A Phenomenal Book Club Pick\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A Taiwanese American woman's coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus in this outrageously hilarious and startingly tender debut novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A blistering send-up of privilege and power, and a profound reckoning of  individual complicity and unspoken rage, in \u003ci\u003eDisorientation\u003c\/i\u003e Elaine Hsieh Chou  asks who gets to tell our stories—and how the story changes when we finally  tell it ourselves.","brand":"Elaine Hsieh Chou","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-03-21","offer_id":44151402397951,"sku":"9780593298374","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e81b15d8-39fe-43c8-8bb9-ea6e469804d7.jpg?v=1682617072","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780593298374","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}