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Identitti

By: Mithu Sanyal
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
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The Sellout meets Interior Chinatown in this satirical debut about a German Indian student whose world is upended when she discovers that her beloved professor who passed for Indian is, in fact, white.

Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student, is in awe of her supervisor—postcolonial and race studies 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 Saraswati during a radio interview just hours before the news breaks calls into question her own reputation as a young activist.

Following the uproar, Nivedita is forced to reflect on the key moments in her life, when she doubted her identity and her place in the world. As debates on the scandal rage on social media, blogs, and among her closest friends, Nivedita’s assumptions are called into question as she reconsiders the lessons she learned from her adored professor.

In her thought-provoking, genre-bending debut, Mithu Sanyal enlisted the contributions and commentary of real life public intellectuals as if Saraswati were a real person. A darkly comedic tour de force, Identitti showcases the outsized power of social media in the current debates about identity politics and the power of claiming your own voice.

©2021 2021 by Mithu Sanyal. Originally published in the German language as Identitti © 2021 by Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, München. Translation (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
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Brilliant writing and narration

This audiobook is brilliant. The narrator did an extraordinary job voicing the story and had the perfect voice for it. The writing is quirky, weird, and genius. More please!

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