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FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST WITH 200,000 FOLLOWERS
'A one-woman literary-political movement' INDEPENDENT
'Kandasamy's work becomes more bold and exciting with each new book' SKINNY
'There has never been a book quite like this' IRISH TIMES
Amrita Chaturvedi goes by Amy (occasionally A). Amy self-identifies as a communist on Twitter (her bio conveniently omits a cameo on Big Brother and millionaire daddy who runs the show at Delhi High Court).
When an AI deepfake porno of her 'forwarded many times' by WhatsApp aunties goes viral, the truth finally catches up to Amy. On her birthday, she is facing a mass stoning in the digital town square that could cancel Kim Kardashian.
Her executioners? A hysterical cartel of virgins styling themselves after V for Vendetta - except these anonymous keyboard warriors are on a merciless crusade to eradicate desi jezebels and Make India Hindu Again.
A literary provocation about performance 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 invites every one of us to ask ourselves how much we're prepared to put on the line for our principles.
'It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy to match her variety' INDEPENDENT
'Kandasamy becomes more bold and exciting with each new book' SKINNY
'Only in her 30, Meena Kandasamy is building a spiky, angular, fiercely singular corpus' INDIA TODAY
DR MEENA KANDASAMY FRSL is a poet-activist over 200,000 followers. She has been translated into more than twenty languages.
Her previous novel, When I Hit You, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize, Jhalak Prize and Hindu Literary Prize. It was also Book of the Year in the Financial Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and Irish Times. Her viral poetry collection, Ms Militancy, is a symbol of feminist rebellion across India.
In 2022, Meena was awarded the PEN Germany Prize for being a "fearless fighter for human rights." She lives in Pondicherry and has two sons.