Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang
4/5
William Morrow 323 pages May 16, 2023
When literary star Athena Liu dies in a freak accident, her struggling former classmate June Hayward walks off with Athena's unfinished manuscript, a novel about Chinese laborers in World War I. June edits it, publishes it as her own under the name Juniper Song, and becomes a bestseller, until people online start asking questions.
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A thriller about stealing a manuscript, narrated by the thief, who is so convinced she is the victim that the book is funny and cringe-inducing on the same page. Kuang skewers the publishing industry, online pile-ons and the question of who gets to tell which stories, and she spares nobody, including the people on the 'right' side. June is exhausting company by design, which is the point and occasionally the problem. Four worms — the sharpest satire of the book world in years.
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