Identitti: A Novel

Identitti: A Novel"Provocative and knotty . . . Identitti is a bracing story, one in which Sanyal refuses to give us the easy way out." Olivia Craighead, The New York Times Nivedita (a. k. a. Identitti), a well known blogger and doctoral student is in awe of her supervisor superstar postcolonial and race studies South Asian professor Saraswati. But her life and sense of self are turned upside down when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Nivedita's praise of

And if that isn't enough

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drawn from its own folklore

the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers

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and unpredictable

it is both

author of We're Going to Need More Wine

and romantic

their precipitous path to success as a writer

OiYan Poon looks at how the debate over affirmative action reveals the divergent ways Asian Americans conceive of their identity

With her signature flapper bob and enthralling dance moves