Fieldwork as a Sex Object: 'One of my books of the year' NICOLA STURGEON

Meena Kandasamy

THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEUR

An iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s

'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS
'I'm a fan' NICOLA STURGEON
'Fearless and brilliant' LEMN SISSAY
'One of the greats' NIKITA GILL
'A tour de force' NIKESH SHUKLA

I mute the audio. I replay the video four times.
It is not me. It is my fucking face.

Amrita Chaturvedi goes by Amy. Amy identifies as a communist on Twitter (her profile omits a stint on Big Brother and 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 after V 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 Object is 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 Object will 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