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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk
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DESCRIPTION:Talk will focus on her most recent work and Asian American rep
 resentation in literature..\nhttps://westlakelibrary.libnet.info/event/995
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><img src="https://static.libnet.info/front
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 17" alt="" style="float: right\; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px\;" />You&rsquo\
 ;re welcome to register for a thrilling conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang
  (R.F. Kuang) as she chats with us about her&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;be
 stselling novel\,&nbsp\;Yellowface.&nbsp\;Yellowface&nbsp\;grapples with q
 uestions of diversity\, racism\, and cultural appropriation\, as well as t
 he terrifying alienation of social media.</p>\n<p>In&nbsp\;Yellowface\, Au
 thors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. B
 ut Athena&rsquo\;s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. W
 ho wants stories about basic white girls\, June thinks.</p>\n<p>So when Ju
 ne witnesses Athena&rsquo\;s death in a freak accident\, she acts on impul
 se: she steals Athena&rsquo\;s just-finished masterpiece\, an experimental
  novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War
  I.</p>\n<p>So what if June edits Athena&rsquo\;s novel and sends it to he
 r 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 history deserve to be told\, whoever the tell
 er? That&rsquo\;s what June claims\, and the&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;be
 stseller list seems to agree.</p>\n<p>But June can&rsquo\;t get away from 
 Athena&rsquo\;s shadow\, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June&rsq
 uo\;s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secre
 t\, she discovers 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-per
 son voice\, Kuang&rsquo\;s novel is timely\, razor-sharp\, and eminently r
 eadable. Register to join the conversation!&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>About the Autho
 r: Rebecca F. Kuang is the award-winning\, #1&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;b
 estselling author of the&nbsp\;Poppy War&nbsp\;trilogy\,&nbsp\;Babel: An A
 rcane History\, and&nbsp\;Yellowface. A Marshall Scholar\, she has an MPhi
 l in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Stu
 dies from Oxford\; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and L
 iteratures at Yale\, where she studies diaspora\, contemporary Chinese lit
 erature\, and Asian American literature.</p>\n<hr />\n<p><em>Brought to yo
 u in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium. <a href="https://li
 braryc.org/westlakelibrary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit our site<
 /a> to see all events\, register and explore recordings of past events.<br
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