NEW YORK TIMES GREAT AWESOME • REESE'S BOOK CLUB CHOICE
“It's hard to put down, even harder to forget. »- Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author
White Lies. Dark humor. Deadly Consequences... Best-selling phenomenon Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she said she wrote, and she's certainly not American-born Ah - in this chilling and hilarious novel by R.F.Kuang, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Babel.
Author June Hayward and Athena Liu are said to be twins on the rise. But Athena is a lover of literature. June Hayward is truly a nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thought.So when June witnesses Athena die in a horrific accident, she acts impulsively: she steals Athena's just completed masterpiece, an experimental novel about her little-known contributions. Chinese prisoners of war in World War I.
What if June edited Athena's novel and sent it to an agent as her own work? What if she let her new publisher rename it Juniper Song, with an unclear author photo? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, who is the storyteller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.But June cannot escape Athena's shadow, and new evidence threatens to cause June's (stolen) success to crumble around her. As June struggles to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
With his fully immersive first-person voiceover, Yellowface grapples with issues of diversity, racism and cultural appropriation, and the terrifying alienation of social media. RFKuang's novel is timely, incisive and extremely readable.
