Publisher Review

'A very funny, intelligent, deliberately and engagingly resistant, and moving piece of writing' - Amit Chaudhuri 'A witty and warm satire...Ogene sticks it to the literary classes as our hero negotiates the complexities of the cultural exchange between cosmopolitan Africa and the western world' - Jamal Mahjoub, author of The Fugitives 'This send-up of modern academia is good knockabout fun' - John Self, The Times 'A wickedly funny and utterly disruptive novel that offers us a lens through which to see ourselves and society, without filters' - Ukamaka Olisakwe, author of Ogadinma: Or, Everything Will Be All Right 'A witty, percipient, and brilliant novel' - Jumoke Verissimo, author of A Small Silence 'A playful and lacerating satire on the codes the black immigrant needs to satisfy in order to curry favour with a self-styled progressive institution in America' - Tomiwa Owolade, UnHerd 'Thought-provoking and funny' - Daily Mail 'A refreshing look at aspects of American culture and politics through the eyes of a Nigerian scholar visiting Boston' - Helon Habila, Guardian 'Really loved Seesaw' - Georgina Godwin, Monocle 24 'A brilliantly meta satire about literary culture, race, class, not writing - the spoofing of academic language and the unreliable narrator's escapades are cracking me up and making me cringe in equal measure' - Jen Calleja, The White Review Books of the Year