Thank you to Net Galley and W.W. Norton for the ARC in exchange for my honest review. This book had interesting moments around otherness and being South Asian in the UK. The title comes from census type forms that list Asian with options for East Asian ethnicities and Indian from India but does not explicitly give an option for his Sri Lankan/Tamil ethnicity thus he falls in the "Asian/Other" category. The author also delves into otherness in poetry and literature and interweaves various criticism around the subject of otherness. I enjoyed the first third of the book but when it focused on literary criticism and it went too deep for my interest. Yet, the book is well written and gained certain insights and perspective.