EAN: 9780063250857

KUANG R F YELLOWFACE

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. 

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