/lit/ - Literature

Not a recommendation, but one of my favorite /lit/ threads was about a pretty shitty Asian-American book

So there was a /pol/ thread about pic related’s author (I’ll talk about that later) and someone posted the description for her debut novel. I ended up downloading and reading it in one day. Holy shit I can’t believe this got a major publisher:

>About an Taiwanese-America PhD student who was forced to study a Chinese-American poet for 8 yearsbecause of her heritage
>She has a white fiancé and the arc of the novel is her learning to hate white men
>Everyone in the novel is a caricature
>There’s the Asian SJW the mc hates at first but later becomes friends with, her male feminist white fiancé turns out to be an Asian fetishist (It’s pretty obvious from the beginning), her Korean-American best friend who likes k-pop, the brother of the best friend who’s an /r/aznidentity poster (But can still get white AND Asian chicks), a professor that turns into Jordan Peterson, a redneck that thinks all Asians are commies, an Asian conservative student, etc.

The whole novel is literally the main character finding a note in the dead Chinese-American poet’s archive and it turns out he was a WHITE GUY IN YELLOWFACE FOR THIRTY YEARS! There’s a whole conspiracy where the professors knew this (And the Jordan Peterson professor helped write the fake poetry) so that Asian students wouldn’t form radical student groups in the 70’s. This leads to the main character realizing that most white people (and white men) are bad. There’s this insane scene at the end where she pretends to defend her dissertation but ends up exposing the whole conspiracy and gets attacked by the Jordan Peterson professor.