You&rsquo\;re welcome to register for a th rilling conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang (R.F. Kuang) as she chats with us about her \;New York Times \;bestselling novel\, \;Yellowfa ce. \;Yellowface \;grapples with questions of diversity\, racism\, and cultural appropriation\, as well as the terrifying alienation of soci al media.
\nIn \;Yellowface\, Authors June Hayward and Athena Li u were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena&rsquo\;s a literary da rling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic whi te girls\, June thinks.
\nSo when June witnesses Athena&rsquo\;s dea th in a freak accident\, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena&rsquo\;s j ust-finished masterpiece\, an experimental novel about the unsung contribu tions of Chinese laborers during World War I.
\nSo what if June edit s Athena&rsquo\;s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song&mdash\;complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn&rsquo\;t this piece of his tory deserve to be told\, whoever the teller? That&rsquo\;s what June clai ms\, and the \;New York Times \;bestseller list seems to agree.
\nBut June can&rsquo\;t get away from Athena&rsquo\;s shadow\, and eme rging evidence threatens to bring June&rsquo\;s (stolen) success down arou nd her. As June races to protect her secret\, she discovers exactly how fa r she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
\nWhite lies\, d ark humor\, and deadly consequences await within the pages of \;Yellow face. With its totally immersive first-person voice\, Kuang&rsquo\;s novel is timely\, razor-sharp\, and eminently readable. Register to join the co nversation! \;
\nAbout the Author: Rebecca F. Kuang is the award -winning\, #1 \;New York Times \;bestselling author of the \;P oppy War \;trilogy\, \;Babel: An Arcane History\, and \;Yellow face. A Marshall Scholar\, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambri dge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford\; she is now pu rsuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale\, where she s tudies diaspora\, contemporary Chinese literature\, and Asian American lit erature.
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