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when peter bowman arrives in the bay area from manhattan, on the run from mysterious pursuers, just as things are going well for him as a professor at a community college, he is audited by the irs. he owes the agency sixty thousand dollars. to earn money to pay his debt, he’s offered a job as ongoing debating partner of shashi paramara, a popular indian conservative intellectual. shashi will be defending the institution of slavery. bowman has the opposing view which, before crowds of right wing conservatives, is the unpopular stance, putting bowman in a no win situation until a national crisis finds the two men in an unholy alliance.where other writers rely on description of buildings and street scenes to draw detailed pictures of a city, reed uses newspaper editorials, headliners, community events, and civic actions, historical letters, memoirs, journals, and history books to create a cityscape in which people engage in a social and political setting. if you enjoyed how george saunders used a similar technique in Lincoln in the Bardo, read Conjugating Hindi. mr reed is an old hand at this, having mastered his technique over fifty years. his neglected classic Mumbo Jumbo came with a bibliography. his oeuvre has reached the point where it speaks for itself, becoming the major influence for this work—with an acerbic wit made more evident by the inclusion within the story of the appearance of the author, ishmael reed, mr reed references himself as well as his own work.on one of several levels, conjugating hindi functions as template for reading other works of american literary fiction. for instance, while other writers have sprinkled their works with foreign phrases and sentences, traditionally from the french, italian or spanish, mr reed has his indian and black characters speaking, when the emotional moment calls for it, untranslated hindi, a language peter bowman learns from online videos.in this scorching satire on gentrification and complicit racism by indian immigrants to the united states, sacred cows are skewered on spits of ingrained beliefs. churchill, gandhi, robert e lee and woodrow wilson, among others.reed extends the diatribes and rants of his characters, adding indian mythology, memoirs and literary accounts of indian women, to his usual arsenal to offer up comparisons of india’s caste system, enjoying the benefits from european colonialism, identifying with western culture at the abandonment of their own culture to racism in the united states, the enjoyment of benefits built on slavery, and successful blacks who distance themselves from social issues facing less fortunate blacks. and the question of why 53% of white women voted for the man who became our 45th president is answered.the statements that come out of the mouths of these characters will have you gasping for breath and reaching for glasses for water. facts abound, if not looked up would read like outrageous lies.as always, mr reed spares no one, not even himself.I received a free copy of this book as a giveaway through Literary Hub’s First Reader’s Club.

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