Inappropriation

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 Australian private 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. 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 mean clique of blondes known as the Cates, 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 a riotous satire of identity politics that announces Lexi Freiman as a brilliant and fearless new talent.