In this “fictional memoir” Davina Quinlivan explores the effects of colonialism, classism and bureaucracy on individual identity, and the many hypocrisies embedded within the world of contemporary academia. As a fellow second-generation immigrant, and someone who grew up below the poverty line but also went on to work in a prestigious university, the experiences Quinlivan outlines here are personally familiar. The structural problems of the modern neoliberal university are very real, and a first-hand account from an “outsider” who has found herself working within the system is long overdue. Why then dilute the account by making half of it up?...