Fieldwork As A Sex Object: From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of When I Hit You

by Meena Kandasamy

English 272 pages 1 edition

Amrita has a past. In London, she goes by Amy – the cool girl who’s more woke than you – but spends most days gallivanting with the rest of Little India. That is, until a deepfake scandalous video of her ‘forwarded many times’ by meddling WhatsApp aunties suddenly appears, all at once, everywhere. The next morning, she’s being publicly stoned in the digital town square by anonymous Hindu incels. Along with an ex nicknamed the Child Soldier and her suitably lower-caste bestie Nirmala, she decides to take a page out of the Kardashian family playbook. Will they succeed in flipping the public narrative, or has she unknowingly fed herself into the belly of an invisible beast that will not rest until she is below ground? Fieldwork as a Sex Object is an incendiary novel about race, politics, sex, sexuality and the insecurities that drive people to do what they do.