Inappropriation Audiobook Summary
“This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment.” — Emma Cline, author of The Girls
A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politics
Starting at a prestigious private Australian girls’ school, fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade’s most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning collection of dark, sexual fantasies, and a biological essentialist mother, Ziggy sets off on a journey of self-discovery that moves from the Sydney drag scene to the extremist underbelly of the Internet.
As PC culture collides with her friends’ morphing ideology and her parents’ kinky sex life, Ziggy’s understanding of gender, race, and class begins to warp. Ostracized at school, she seeks refuge in Donna Haraway’s seminal feminist text, A Cyborg Manifesto, and discovers an indisputable alternative identity. Or so she thinks. A controversial Indian guru, a transgender drag queen, and her own Holocaust-surviving grandmother propel Ziggy through a series of misidentifications, culminating in a date-rape revenge plot so confused, it just might work.
Uproariously funny, but written with extraordinary acuity about the intersections of gender, sexual politics, race, and technology, Inappropriation is literary satire at its best. With a deft finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, Lexi Freiman debuts on the scene as a brilliant and fearless new talent.
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Inappropriation Audiobook Narrator
Katherine Littrell is the narrator of Inappropriation audiobook that was written by Lexi Freiman
Lexi Freiman is a fiction editor at George Braziller, a publisher in New York, and a recent Columbia University MFA grad. She was a Center for Fiction Writing Fellow in 2013 and has published in The Literary Review. Before moving to New York, she was an actress with Australia’s national Shakespeare company, where she performed roles such as Celia from As You Like It, Lady Capulet from Romeo and Juliet, and Thaisa from Pericles, all at the Sydney Opera House.
About the Author(s) of Inappropriation
Lexi Freiman is the author of Inappropriation
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Inappropriation Full Details
Narrator | Katherine Littrell |
Length | 10 hours 3 minutes |
Author | Lexi Freiman |
Category | |
Publisher | HarperAudio |
Release date | July 24, 2018 |
ISBN | 9780062847942 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Inappropriation is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Coming of Age, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the Inappropriation is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062847942.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
Goodreads Reviews
Kim
May 28, 2019
Inappropriation by Lexi Frieman. Great Book! Severely under-hyped IMHO. Savage satire set in Sydney and it's making my head spin! Disguised as a coming of age story but it is so much a story of our times and I've never read anything like it! It is a challenging read because the progressive punchlines are relentless. It's pushing hard against BSU for my top read so far this year. It was completely off my radar until it was included in the 2019 Miles Franklin Long-list. Love reading the long-lists for this reason.It's a book that definitely won't appeal to everyone, I expect it to be very polarising but I think it may become a cult classic with gen Z in about 10 years time. One I'll definitely seek out for my personal collection.
Cassandra
July 30, 2018
Smart, savage satire.
joshua
April 13, 2021
this has the exact same energy as early 2010s youtube culture, except tyler oakley is also getting red pilled????
Liberty
October 04, 2021
as unpleasant and unputdownable as Christos Tsiolkas. really interesting look into PC culture/identity/activism; considers the line between support and ridicule and who exactly gets to define it. as feral and exhausting as my actual teenage girlhood - v introspective, v funny and thoroughly uncomfortable.
Ben
November 04, 2018
Smart and darkly funny. Satire but not entirely. Engages with meaty difficult topics and takes the characters to some pretty dark and ugly places. The character arcs were a bit uncertain and the author kind of withholds their final verdict but I enjoyed its courage and wit.
Kirk
October 12, 2018
Before opening this book, I was afraid that the title was going to be the author's one moment of brilliance, but the text largely follows the promise of the title. Most beguilingly, while the novel is a satire of PC culture, it's hard to be sure of just where the author stands on the subject: I took it in the same stride as Monty Python's The Life of Brian, which gathers itself with a momentously disrespectful reverence, or reverential disrespect. Much of the ambiguity lies in the fortunate decision to carve out the satire in a setting of Adolescents Finding Themselves, a stewpot of heartrending feels and passions. I admit that I could only take so much of this book in one sitting, but that may be unavoidable considering the subject matter.P.S. Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, has a standout interview of the author in regards to this book.
Georgia
July 10, 2018
Fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein struggles to find her place in the complex eco-systems of high school, family, the internet and society at large in this broadly eccentric satire of identity politics. It's meaty and smart but makes this fearless novel truly hilarious is Lexi’s dry, offbeat eye and (what I’m calling) New Australian sense of humor. The ridiculous is sublime and Ziggy’s search for her truth takes us everywhere from Sydney drag bars to rich bitch pool parties to the online alt right underbelly. A must for anyone who’s ever had a circling argument about what, exactly, constitutes cultural appropriation.
Laura Anne
June 16, 2019
One of the best novels I’ve read in a while. I just devoured this book in a way I haven’t done since I was a teenager. I had to tear through it and find out what would happen. Let me prepare you, this book is weird as in really weird. If you were ever “the weird kid” this book will make you feel things. Good and bad, mostly good though.Book appétit!
Andrew
July 06, 2019
god bless Ziggy, one of the most confused and deranged and oddly sympathetic protagonists I have come across in all of literature!! yes this book is a satire of a certain kind of perforative wokeness but not in the reactionary way you expect, and ultimately it’s very loving and so so so funny. A nice surprise!!
Karina
October 12, 2021
Me recordó mis tiempos no tan radicales como en e libro pero ese traspaso de adolescente a adulto por u decir, pero es buenísimo como se quiere romper todo lo que ya conocemos o lo que seguimos para ser tu misma a mi me gusto mucho por que regrese a la época de la secundaria/preparatoria que fue lo que mas me pego en mi etapa de desarrollo.
Madeleine
September 06, 2021
I honestly completely disagree with the negative reviews for this book. It was funny, satirical, bizarre, maddening at some points and truly just a great time. Yes, I think having some feminist theory and queer theory background helps, otherwise a lot of the motivations and choices the characters make just seem completely nonsensical - but overall, just a really fun and thought provoking book.
Alice
November 13, 2019
Ziggy has problems. The prepubescent teenager is going to a new school. She doesn't know if she is gay or straight, cis or trans, so she settles on transhuman or cyborg. She tries to be a good feminist and culturally sensitive. Then she plays some truly nasty pranks and wonders why she loses her new friends.
Annie
June 19, 2019
I don't think I've ever read something that was aimed right at the heart of Sydney millenials. I didn't understand all the satire in it, but I really appreciated having something like this in my life. With a few tweaks, this would make a great film adaptation.
Niki
July 07, 2022
Despite the overall negative reviews I actually really enjoyed this one. Satire can be difficult to stomach sometimes but Freiman does it in such an extravagant way CONSTANTLY throughout the whole book that you get used to it. Not everyone’s cup of tea but I really enjoyed the genre of humor.
kade
June 01, 2022
it was interesting... 3.5
Abbey
September 12, 2018
I loved this weirdo coming of age feminist/PC culture novel.
Liwa
July 18, 2022
hells yeah
Natalie
December 07, 2019
super weird but I really enjoyed it
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