Fieldwork as a Sex Object 9781840919448 Hardback

THE WOMEN’S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEURAn iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s’Best book of the year’ NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS’One of my books of the year’ NICOLA STURGEON’Fearless and brilliant’ LEMN SISSAY’One of the greats’ NIKITA GILL’A South Asian feministUncut Gems’ASH SARKAR’Brilliant and brutal’ PILAR QUINTANA’A tour de force’ NIKESH SHUKLAI mute the audio. I replay the video four times.It is not me. Itismy fucking face.Amrita Chaturvedi goes by Amy. Amy identifies as a communist on Twitter (her profile omits a stint onBig Brotherand a billionaire daddy running the show at the High Court of Delhi).Then reality hits: a deepfake porno of her forwarded around by WhatsApp aunties goes viral. On her birthday, Amy wakes to a stoning in the digital town square that could cancel the likes of Kim Kardashian.Her executioners? A cartel of unhinged virgins styling themselves afterV for Vendetta- except these keyboard warriors are on a ruthless crusade to wipe out desi jezebels and Make India Hindu Again.A muscular, monumental work of internet literature in which the online turns offline turns bloody,Fieldwork as a Sex Objectis not a novel you read but a novel that reads you: what are you prepared to risk for what you claim to believe?’Fieldwork as a Sex Objectwill simultaneously shock and reel you in’VOGUE’One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow’HARPER’S BAZAAR’Kandasamy is fearless on the page’ESQUIRE’A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement’INDEPENDENT’One of fiction’s most fiery and unclassifiable’GUARDIAN