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Yellowface

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

"Hard to put down, harder to forget." -- 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 didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in 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 Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.

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 during World War I.

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.

But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (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. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

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384 pages

Average rating: 6.76

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Codeliusthe2nd
Sep 04, 2024
8/10 stars
“Yellowface” is a vastly entertaining and interesting peek behind the curtain of literary publications. It does a wonderful job at balancing critiques of intellectual theft with cultural identity. Kuang crafts a compelling story, with my only issue being the amount of depth she went to in the novel - there are situations within the novel that Kuang describes in unnecessary detail, where something shorter and more concise would have been just as effective. The novel is paced well though, which makes these portions fly by, it would just have been nice to have a bit more editing to streamline Kuang’s thoughts. That being said, I found this to be a highly entertaining novel with a character that was so disposable, you couldn’t help but watch every situation unfold with a bucket of popcorn in your lap. I can certainly see why this has charmed so many, as it charmed me as well:
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jpup2010
Jul 27, 2024
9/10 stars
I love almost any type of book about authors, books, writing, libraries, and this was no exception! I’ve read a few of her other books and this was by far the one I devoured the quickest. In a social media world like ours, everyone is on the brink of being brought low by it all. This story follows someone falling into a wasps nest of social media, race, fame and how her devolution affects her real life too.
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harith95
Jul 27, 2024
9/10 stars
Great storyteller
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StephanieJ
Jul 19, 2024
8/10 stars
I liked this book so much that I put my other reading on hold to finish it, which didn't take long. It's an easy, juicy, gossipy, read. If you're looking for your next summer read, this might be it.
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Shahna
Jul 18, 2024
10/10 stars
I loved this.

I love how horrible and awful the main character is.
What a terrible human.
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