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SUMMARY:SMUSA Book Club - August Book: Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
DESCRIPTION: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.\n \nBut 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.\n \nA 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.\n\nA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE SELECTION * A MALALA BOOK 
 CLUB PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A FAVORITE BOOK OF 2022 BY NPR AND BOOK 
 RIOT * A MUST-READ MARCH 2022 BOOK BY TIME\, VANITY FAIR\, EW AND THE 
 CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS * A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY GOODREADS\, 
 NYLON\, BUZZFEED AND MORE\n\nA Taiwanese American woman’s 
 coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a 
 college campus in this outrageously hilarious and startlingly tender debut 
 novel.\n\n
LOCATION:Fondren Library West 211 (The Texana Room)
ORGANIZER;CN="Tiffany Powell":MAILTO:tapowell@mail.smu.edu
CATEGORIES:All Staff Event
CONTACT;CN="Tiffany Powell":MAILTO:tapowell@mail.smu.edu
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URL:https://booking.smu.edu/event/14623780
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