Brown Skin White Lies

<p><strong>A student visa. A forged passport. A body buried in mango soil.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Arjun Ajith Nair didn't mean to vanish-he just meant to survive. He arrived in Australia with a duffel bag a bank loan stitched in desperation and a $90 customs fine for undeclared garlic pickle. Three years later he's fleeing Broome with blood on his hands encrypted files in his sock and a fake Timorese identity burning in his back pocket.</p><p>From orchard exploitation and migrant debt traps to whistleblower blackmail and international escape <em>Brown Skin White Lies</em> is a fugitive's ledger-told in staccato chapters encrypted fragments and the lyrical debris of a life unravelled.</p><p>Along the way Arjun moves through detention-threatened farms shared housing in Thomastown a digital sting operation on Grey Street and a final reckoning in a rusted radar station east of Broome. From Bali to Beirut he learns that identity is a currency and truth comes with transaction fees.</p><p>This is not a redemption arc. It's a survival manual for the undocumented the underpaid and the disappeared. It's about the lies we tell-not just to belong-but to breathe.</p><p><strong>For fans of Aravind Adiga Behrouz Boochani and Ocean Vuong.</strong></p><p><em>Brown Skin White Lies</em> is raw poetic and defiant-an immigrant story rewritten from the margins.</p>