Full name: Yellowface: A Novel

Author: R. F. Kuang Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Mystery Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780063250833 0063250837

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody.White liesWhen Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.Dark humourBut as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.Deadly consequences…What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.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.