Identitti: A Novel

"Provocative and knotty . . . Identitti is a bracing story, one in which Sanyal refuses to give us the easy way out."
—Olivia Craighead, The New York Times

Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student is in awe of her supervisor—superstar postcolonial and race studies South-Asian professor Saraswati. But her life and sense of self are turned upside down when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Nivedita’s praise of her professor during a radio interview just ...