Rodrigo Suarez’s Coyote Road is a veritable smash hit. Anyone who’s anyone is reading it, and the accolades and speaking invitations are pouring in. There is just one problem: Rodrigo didn’t write it. Jerry Turley did. And no one believes him.

Thus, Jerry—an unimpressive professor at an Appalachian university—embarks on an obsessive, self-destructive crusade to prove his authorship and expose Rodrigo as a thief and an impostor. It doesn’t take much Googling to discover that “Rodrigo” is not the man he claims to be. Convincing people to care about it proves much harder.

In this uncomfortable campus farce, Steven Salaita holds a mirror to the nagging questions of authenticity and appropriation that occupy college campuses and literary institutions alike, daring to ask us who really stands to benefit from our era of sensitivity and self-regard.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Author: Steven Salaita
Publisher: Common Notions
ISBN: 9781945335464
Published: March 3, 2026
Format: Paperback
Size: 5.5 in X 8.5 in
Page count: 156
Subjects: Fiction / Literary

About THE AUTHOR

Steven Salaita is a scholar and writer based in Egypt. He is the author of nine nonfiction books, most notably Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine, Israel's Dead Soul, and the recently published memoir, An Honest Living. He currently teaches at the American University in Cairo. Daughter, Son, Assassin is his first work of fiction. His essays can be found at stevesalaita.com.