A review by heykellyjensen
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

29-year-old Ingrid Yang is in the final year of her doctoral work and is hard at work on her thesis on enjambment in the work of Chinese-American poet Xiao-Wen Chou. What begins as exhaustion and lack of inspiration turns into a story of unmasking the truth of who Chou is through a series of both ridiculous and serious activities undertaken due to exhaustion, duress, and, eventually, light revenge. Ingrid is Taiwanese-American, and this story explores how Asian heritage in America can and is exploited and fetishized, demeaned and held to high standards. 

This book is both darkly humorous and starkly series, mixing elements of the books Yellowface and Bunny in their takedowns of academic yellowface and academia more broadly.