![]() Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society. ![]() 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. 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 to the British and French war efforts during World War I. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. ![]() Kuang poses this very question in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl.Īuthors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. ![]()
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