BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:New Orleans Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:New Orleans Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0f278d54-af67-4372-b4e5-bf1d04b70241 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260715T143018Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240521T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240521T190000 SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: R.F. Kuang LOCATION:Virtual Events\nVirtual Events X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Virtual Events;X-APPLE-RAD IUS=10;X-TITLE=Virtual Events:geo:29.9544733,-90.0756623 GEO:29.9544733;-90.0756623 DESCRIPTION:In an online author talk\, Rebecca F. Kuang discusses her best selling novel. Register to receive the link to join and submit questions.. \nhttps://neworleans.libnet.info/event/10345781 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Rebecca F. Kuang (R.F. Kuang)'s \; New York Times \;bestselling novel \;Yellowface  \;grapples with questions of diversity\, racism\, and cultural appropriati on\, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media.

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In  \;Yellowface\, Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena&rsquo\;s a literary darling. June Hayw ard is literally 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 \, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborer s during World War I. \;So what if June edits Athena&rsquo\;s novel an d sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publi sher rebrand her as Juniper Song&mdash\;complete with an ambiguously ethni c author photo? Doesn&rsquo\;t this piece of history deserve to be told\, whoever the teller? That&rsquo\;s what June claims\, and the \;New York Times \;bestseller list seems to agree. But June can&rsquo\ ;t get away from Athena&rsquo\;s shadow\, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June&rsquo\;s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret\, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep wha t she thinks she deserves.

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White lies\, dark humor\, and deadly co nsequences await within the pages of \;Yellowface. With its t otally immersive first-person voice\, Kuang&rsquo\;s novel is timely\, raz or-sharp\, and eminently readable. \;

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Rebecca F. Kuang is the award-winning\, #1 \;New York Times \;bestselling author of the \;Poppy War \;trilogy\, \;Babel: An Arcane History\, and \;Yellowface. A Marshall Scholar\, she ha s an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Ch inese Studies from Oxford\; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Langua ges and Literatures at Yale\, where she studies diaspora\, contemporary Ch inese literature\, and Asian American literature.

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