INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
âHard to put down, harder to forget.â â Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences⊠Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didnât write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian Americanâin 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 Athenaâs a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.
So when June witnesses Athenaâs death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athenaâs just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.
So what if June edits Athenaâs novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Songâcomplete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesnât this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? Thatâs what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.
But June canât get away from Athenaâs shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring Juneâs (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. Kuangâs novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.
Clara
24.10.2024
2.5 stars
Nataliya
7.9.2023
Very entertaining, a lot of good questions are raised, and I was constantly switching between hating and feeling sorry for the main characterđ
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