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Disorientation

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Résumé : The novel follows Ingrid Yang, an eighth-year PhD student studying the work of late Chinese-American poet, Xiao-Wen Chou, described as the "so-called Chinese Robert Frost." The story takes place at Barnes University, a university in fictional Wittlebury, Massachusetts. Originally, Michael Bartholemew, Ingrid's white advisor and chair of the East Asian Studies department at Barnes, pressured Ingrid into studying Chou's poetry, even though she finds Chou stereotypical and boring. After spending long nights studying in the Chou archives at Barnes, and struggling to find inspiration for her dissertation, Ingrid finds a note in unfamiliar handwriting revealing new information about Chou's poetry. Feeling motivated to uncover this mystery and find a new angle for her dissertation, Ingrid, along with her friend Eunice, discovers that the handwriting on the note belongs to John Smith.