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"Who hasn’t felt excluded from a group or regretted a remark? In Sameer Pandya’s heart-pounding novel, every word Raj Bhatt says, every action he takes, is consequential. Raj is an Indian American anthropology professor, and in separate incidents, his words are used against him at his private tennis club and at the liberal arts college where he teaches. He is constantly “otherized,” and he’s desperate to find connections in historically white spaces. This is a nail-biting read because Raj’s fate – a comfortable life unraveled by misinterpretations and words taken out of context – is all too familiar in today’s world."