Disorientation, by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Elaine Hsieh Chou’s debut novel is a funny and biting satirical campus story. Ingrid Yang, the book’s protagonist, is studying a Chinese poet for her Ph.D. program when she discovers that the poet is actually a white man in yellowface. Based on the real controversy of poet Michael Derrick Hudson submitting poetry under the pseudonym Yi-Fen Chou, Disorientation takes the reader deep into the issues of racial identity and social-justice movements, and it handles them with insight and levity. Get the book.
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Minor Feelings, by Cathy Park Hong
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