Disorientation / Elaine Hsieh Chou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chou, Elaine Hsieh, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women doctoral students--United States--Fiction.

Women doctoral students.

Chinese American women--Fiction.

Chinese American women.

Education, Higher--United States--Fiction.

Education, Higher.

Discrimination in higher education--United States--Fiction.

Discrimination in higher education.

Satire, American.

United States.

Genre:

Humorous fiction

Campus fiction

Fiction

Humorous fiction.

Campus fiction.

Physical Description:

401 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Disorientation : a novel

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2023.

Summary:

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. After years of grueling research, she accidentally stumbles upon a curious note in the Chou archives and convinces herself it's her ticket out of academic hell. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the note's message lead to an explosive discovery. When her fiancé, Stephen Greene, embarks on a book tour with the super kawaii Japanese author he's translated, Ingrid will have to confront her sticky relationship to white men and white institutions-- and, most of all, herself.

"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. 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." -- description from publisher's website. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671562/disorientation-by-elaine-hsieh-chou/#:~:text=BUZZFEED%20AND%20MORE-,A%20Taiwanese%20American%20woman's%20coming%2Dof%2Dconsciousness%20ignites%20eye%2D,and%20startlingly%20tender%20debut%20novel.

Contents:

Part I: Fall quarter. The curious note

A benign coincidence

The most common name in the English-speaking world

Yellow peril 2.0

The versatility of tampons

"Kumquats on an autumn day"

Hollywood

Part II: Winter quarter. Chinatown Blues

Special occasion role-play

Traitor!

Part III: Spring quarter. Chaos in the East Asian Studies Department

Good old-fashioned American freedom

Exhibiting all the usual signs

The ultimate Asian woman

Serial killers want to be caught

Part IV; Summer. All hail emperor Bartholomew

Total immersion

Fever dream

A priori, a posteriori

Be a good girl

Epilogue: A new you.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-401)

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Chou, Elaine Hsieh. Disorientation.

ISBN:

9780593298374

0593298373

OCLC:

1374334325