INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠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.
Anonymous
4/19/2024
It was a good ride!! Me gustaron mucho los personajes, especialmente las protagonistas (porque aunque Athena Lu estĂĄ muerta, es una protagonista!). El viaje de June, la obsesiĂłn, la locura, el viaje... Es emocionante. La forma en que Athena es descrita es simplemente maravillosa. Sobre los personajes, tiene una cosa terrorĂfica y fascinante, y es que logra que, en un punto, aunque sabemos que June es la villana, queremos que gane, que le vaya bien, aunque sabemos que ella estĂĄ equivocada, que tiene motivos terribles (egoĂstas, egĂłlatras, retorcidos, racistas...), pero queremos que asĂ sea; y eso sin que deje de ser la que estĂĄ equivocada. En cuanto a la trama, te tienen al borde de la silla todo el tiempo. Tiene un ritmo cautivador y rĂĄpido que apreciĂŠ mucho. Sobre las crĂticas, que claramente estĂĄn ahĂ, ÂĄWow! IncreĂblemente realizado. Nos habla de la forma perversa en que funciona la industria editorial, sobre las minorĂas, la marginalizaciĂłn, las voces acalladas; sobre los privilegios blancos y como no son
Maria
2/27/2024
Te deja pensando mucho, acerca de temas actuales y como son abordados desde diferentes perspectivas, muy bien escrito y da para discutir mucho.
Mei
1/8/2024
dark, espectacular and unbelievable