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SUMMARY:Asian American Representation in Literature
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DESCRIPTION:We welcome you to register for a thrilling conversation with R
 ebecca F. Kuang (R.F. Kuang) as she chats with us about her New York Times
  bestselling novel\, Yellowface. .\nhttps://opl.libnet.info/event/10624175
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Yellowface grapples with questions of dive
 rsity\, racism\, and cultural appropriation\, as well as the terrifying al
 ienation of social media.</p>\n<p>In&nbsp\;Yellowface\, Authors June Haywa
 rd and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena&rsquo\
 ;s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories
  about basic white girls\, June thinks.</p>\n<p>So when June witnesses Ath
 ena&rsquo\;s death in a freak accident\, she acts on impulse: she steals A
 thena&rsquo\;s just-finished masterpiece\, an experimental novel about the
  unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.</p>\n<p>So w
 hat if June edits Athena&rsquo\;s novel and sends it to her agent as her o
 wn 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 t
 his piece of history deserve to be told\, whoever the teller? That&rsquo\;
 s what June claims\, and the&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;bestseller list se
 ems to agree.</p>\n<p>But June can&rsquo\;t get away from Athena&rsquo\;s 
 shadow\, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June&rsquo\;s (stolen) s
 uccess down around her. As June races to protect her secret\, she discover
 s exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.</p>\n<
 p>White lies\, dark humor\, and deadly consequences await within the pages
  of&nbsp\;Yellowface. With its totally immersive first-person voice\, Kuan
 g&rsquo\;s novel is timely\, razor-sharp\, and eminently readable. Registe
 r to join the conversation!&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Click here for a list of books 
 by <a href="https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=rebecca%20f.%20k
 uang&amp\;searchType=author">Rebecca F. Kuang</a> at the Oakville Public L
 ibrary.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>About the Author</strong></p>\n<p>Rebecca F
 . Kuang is the award-winning\, #1&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;bestselling a
 uthor of the&nbsp\;Poppy War&nbsp\;trilogy\,&nbsp\;Babel: An Arcane Histor
 y\, and&nbsp\;Yellowface. A Marshall Scholar\, she has an MPhil in Chinese
  Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Ox
 ford\; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures a
 t Yale\, where she studies diaspora\, contemporary Chinese literature\, an
 d Asian American literature.</p>\n<p><strong>The views expressed by presen
 ters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an end
 orsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific p
 roduct or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by O
 akville Public Library.</strong></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://opl.libnet
 .info/event/10624175
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