Disoccidented

"Disoccidented" is largely the autobiography of Alfie Shoyger written in many different poetic forms, almost a novel-in-verse, describing various aspects of his life but above all charting his political development. Shoyger is a white working-class British man from East London born with ADHD-PI. From university onwards he finds himself surrounded by middle-class liberals. Such people seem to be the bane of his life. The book throbs all the way through with anger and resentment towards the bourgeois and politically correct. He has a deep love for Germany and the German language, and ends up in Berlin during the European Migrant Crisis. This is when he really starts to perceive the world in new ways. Along the way, he falls in love with a seriously mentally ill girl, travels through Nepal and India, snorts copious amounts of ketamine, joins a squatting community in Bristol and rescues a stuffed badger.