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A novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s from the Women's Prize-shortlisted literary world's M.I.A.



'One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable' GUARDIAN

'A one-woman literary-political movement' INDEPENDENT

'Kandasamy becomes more bold and exciting with each new book' SKINNY



BRIDGET JONES MEETS SLAVOJ ?I?EK: YOU GET CHICK-LIT, AND CLASS STRUGGLE



The answer is to become shameless. How can you shame a shameless woman?



Amrita goes by Amy. Amy identifies as a Marxist. Nevermind her teenage stint on reality TV and millionaire daddy who runs Delhi High Court. It's only when an AI-generated deepfake porno of her 'forwarded many times' by misinformed WhatsApp aunties goes mega-viral that sh*t gets real.



The next day, Little Miss Ally's reputation is facing a public stoning in the digital town square so damaging it could take down a Kardashian. Her executioners? A hysteric bunch of virgins - except this anonymous cartel of keyboard warriors are on a merciless crusade to eradicate desi jezebels and Make India Hindu Again.



A literary provocation about authenticity where the online turns offline turns bloody, Fieldwork as a Sex Object is not a novel you read but a novel that reads you. It asks every one of us with skin in the game what we're prepared to put on the line for our principles.



PRAISE FOR MEENA KANDASAMY:



'Thank god for writing like this' MAX PORTER



'There has never been a book quite like this' IRISH TIMES



'So so good. One of the best of the year' NIKESH SHUKLA



'It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy to match her' INDEPENDENT

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