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Length12h 53m
About this audiobook
A wildly funny and richly resonant novel about the absurdities and hypocrisies of twenty-first-century higher education and what parents will sacrifice to get their children into the schools of their dreams, from a celebrated Canadian novelist
Devi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Katrina is a middle-class American girl whose life has been designed to get her into an elite liberal arts college. Devi’s father cleans toilets in a five-star hotel to pay for his daughter’s Indian tutor, who might not be the Oxford student he claims to be on WhatsApp. Katrina’s father teaches extra courses at a mediocre technical university to pay for his daughter’s academic lifestyle experiences. Meanwhile, his tech bro teaching assistant expertly extorts money from international students worried about failing school.
Set between contemporary Sri Lanka and the United States, Lords of Serendipity is a wry, moving and sharply observed story about how rich and poor alike try to get ahead by going to university. It’s about dreams and ambition meeting corruption and hypocrisy. It’s about what parents are willing to do for their children, and about what strivers and hustlers are willing to do when they meet gatekeepers.
This is the twenty-first-century global campus novel, a story about two teenage girls from opposite sides of the world with the same dream: four years in a quadrangle-shaped paradise that offers lots of super amazing courses and super amazing protests. The novel couldn’t be more timely in this absurd and perilous-feeling moment for both American life and university education.
Audiobook details
GenreHumor, General Fiction
Length12 hrs 53 mins
Narrated bySharmila Devar
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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