Yellowface

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Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang

ISBN: 9780063250857
Softcover, new, Publication Date 01/07/2025

Brief Description:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK – EXCERPT TO
NEW NOVEL KATABASIS! “Hard to put down, harder to forget.” — Stephen King
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation
Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she
claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American–in this
chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York
Times bestselling author of Babel. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were
supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June
Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls,
June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she
acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an
experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers
during World War I. So what if June edits Athena’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–complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo?
Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller?
That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to
agree. But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence
threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races
to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep
what she thinks she deserves. With its totally immersive first-person
voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and
cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social
media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.