Yellowface (International Edition) by R.F. Kuang
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Yellowface (International Edition) by R.F. Kuang
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Yellowface
June Hayward is a struggling writer going nowhere—unpublished, overlooked, watching from the margins as her former Yale classmate Athena Liu becomes a publishing darling. Then, in a moment that changes everything, Athena chokes to death on a pancake. And June, alone with the body, walks out with Athena's unpublished manuscript.
What follows is a calculated theft of opportunity. June publishes The Last Front—Athena's brilliant novel about the unsung Chinese labourers of World War I—under the pseudonym "Juniper Song," complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo. It works. The book becomes a bestseller. June gets the Netflix deal, the critical praise, the life she's always believed she deserved. But the internet never forgets, and soon anonymous accusations surface: plagiarism, cultural appropriation, a white woman in yellowface.
What begins as a thrilling con descends into paranoia and psychological warfare as June races to protect her secret, encountering everything from Twitter's brutal court of public opinion to the real ghosts of her own complicity—and the very real person determined to expose her. Kuang's debut literary novel is a razor-sharp, darkly funny dissection of race, diversity, and ambition in modern publishing, wrapped in a tense, propulsive thriller. At 336 pages, Yellowface asks uncomfortable questions about who gets to tell which stories, and how far we'll go to keep what we think we deserve.
Publisher: The Borough Press
Date Published: 09/05/2024
ISBN: 9780008532819
Number of pages: 336
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