![]() When the manuscript gets picked up for publication with a large advance and a huge marketing budget, June “rebrands” as Juniper Song and walks a racially ambiguous line while constantly justifying her profoundly unethical choices to herself. ![]() ![]() But when Athena accidentally dies and June is the only witness, June decides to take an unfinished manuscript from Athena’s desk about Chinese soldiers in World War I and passes it off as her own. Her new novel follows white writer June Hayward, who has sort of befriended the wildly successful publishing darling Athena Liu. And anyone who’s had experience in the publishing and media industry may wince at the precision with which it is portrayed in this page-turning thriller. Kuang, the best-selling author of the brilliant and immersive historical fantasy novel Babel: An Arcane History and The Poppy War trilogy, is departing from her tried-and-true genre with Yellowface. ![]()
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