Yellowface : a novel / R. F. Kuang.
What's the harm in a pseudonym? 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. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody 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 to the British and French war efforts 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 cant 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 takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society. R. F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063250833 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0063250837 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 323 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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Subject: | Authors > Fiction. Authorship > Fiction. Asian Americans > Fiction. Impostors and imposture > Fiction. Chinese American authors > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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- 39 of 78 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Abington Community Library | FICTION KUANG (Text) | 50687011834713 | Adult Fiction | Checked Out | 05/03/2024 |
Albright Memorial Library | FICTION KUANG (Text) | 50686016298452 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library | F KUA (Text) | 37268003159993 | AHMFL Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Altoona Area Public Library | F KUA (Text) | 33240005155323 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Annie Halenbake Ross Library | F Kua (Text)
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00158660 | ADULT Fiction | Checked Out | 05/13/2024 |
Bangor Public Library | F KUA (Text) | 75011000394103 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bedford County Library | F KUA (Text) | 35010001104593 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bernville Area Community Library | KUA (Text) | 33249025073093 | New | Checked Out | 05/06/2024 |
Bethel Tulpehocken Public Library | KUA (Text) | 33249025388772 | Fiction | Checked Out | 05/07/2024 |
Blossburg Memorial Library | F KUA (Text) | 30063000279523 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |