Yellowface \;grapples with qu
estions of diversity\, racism\, and cultural appropriation\, as well as th
e terrifying alienation of social media.
In \;Yellowface\, Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin risi
ng stars. But Athena&rsquo\;s a literary darling. June Hayward is literall
y nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls\, June thinks.
So when June witnesses Athena&rsquo\;s death in a freak accident\, she
acts on impulse: she steals Athena&rsquo\;s just-finished masterpiece\, a
n experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers du
ring World War I.
So what if June edits Athena&rsquo\;s novel a
nd sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publ
isher rebrand her as Juniper Song&mdash\;complete with an ambiguously ethn
ic author photo? Doesn&rsquo\;t this piece of history deserve to be told\,
whoever the teller? That&rsquo\;s what June claims\, and the \;Ne
w York Times \;bestseller list seems to agree.
But Jun
e can&rsquo\;t get away from Athena&rsquo\;s shadow\, and emerging evidenc
e threatens to bring June&rsquo\;s (stolen) success down around her. As Ju
ne races to protect her secret\, she discovers exactly how far she will go
to keep what she thinks she deserves.
White lies\, dark humor\
, and deadly consequences await within the pages of \;Yellowface<
/a>. With its totally immersive first-person voice\, Kuang&rsquo\;s novel
is timely\, razor-sharp\, and eminently readable. Register to join the con
versation! \;
About the Author: Rebecca F. Kuang is the award
-winning\, #1 \;New York Times \;bestselling author of th
e \;Poppy War \;trilogy\, \;Babel: An Arcane History<
/em>\, and \;Yellowface. A Marshall Scholar\, she has an
MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese
Studies from Oxford\; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages a
nd Literatures at Yale\, where she studies diaspora\, contemporary Chinese
literature\, and Asian American literature.
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