Mock My Words

An English teacher who speaks broken English. A wife who no longer loves him. But a student who does.And a thousand terabytes of stolen data. Cultures clash, egos collide, and ideas sparkle in this genre-melding tale of a Chinese literary genius who struggles to communicate with his Californian students while his plucky American wife battles a high-tech conspiracy.

Chandra Shekhar came to the US from India in 1987 to study Artificial Intelligence. After more than a decade of work on self-driving vehicles, facial recognition, and video surveillance, he switched to the less lucrative but more benign career of science journalism, and then to fiction writing. Mock My Words is his first published novel. Chandra is also a prolific writer of short stories, flash fiction, and humorous verse. An illustrated collection of his shorter works, titled Unintended Consequences, Illogical Extremes, and Other Ironies of Life, will be published this year.