Sugar

An Ethnographic Novel

Edward Narain, Tarryn Phillips

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English

University of Toronto Press
08 July 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Social & cultural history; Ethnic studies; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom

In Suva, the bustling capital of Fiji, a tropical cyclone is looming. In this city of dazzling contradictions, three strangers are living worlds apart.

Hannah is a young Australian expat who volunteers at a local health organisation while leading a heady life of house parties and weekend getaways. Isikeli is a teenager from the informal settlement who has given up on his childhood dream of playing professional rugby and cares for his diabetic grandmother. Rishika is an Indo-Fijian historian who put her career on hold when she got married, only to find that her once compassionate and fun-loving husband has become increasingly estranged.

When a brutal murder causes their worlds to collide, this unlikely trio must search for answers in the cyclone-ravaged city. Along the way, they are each forced to confront uncomfortable truths about development, its darker side, and their place within it.

Based on a combination of long-term research and lived experience, this compelling ethnographic novel reveals the hidden ways in which global inequality and violence play out in the developing world. Keenly observed and full of heart, Sugar is an intimate portrayal of grief, friendship, and culture clash that will prompt new ways of thinking about the world.

By: Edward Narain, Tarryn Phillips
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781487554972
ISBN 10: 1487554974
Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 08 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Edward Narain is a Fijian political analyst, researcher and writer. Tarryn Phillips is a medical anthropologist and sociolegal scholar in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University.

Reviews for Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel

"""This book engages an impressive array of issues of anthropological concern - food and eating, commodities, necropolitics, voluntourism, diasporic communities, Indigeneity, and others - but that it does this through the medium of ethnographic fiction is what really sets it apart. It's also, quite simply, a great read. Highly recommended."" - Luis Vivanco, University of Vermont ""This book is a page-turner, and with each page the characters become more endeared and more complex. The style, ethnographic fiction, closes the distance between reader and character in remarkable ways."" - Jessica Hardin, Rochester Institute of Technology"