TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kuang,R.F.
TI  - Yellowface: a novel 
SN  - 9780008532819
U1  - BI FD KUA 2023 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Authors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Asian Americans
KW  - Impostors and imposture
KW  - Chinese American authors
KW  - Secrets
KW  - Écrivains
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Art d'écrire
KW  - Américains d'origine asiatique
KW  - FICTION / Asian American
KW  - FICTION / Women
KW  - FICTION / Cultural Heritage
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - FICTION / Psychological
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Satire
KW  - FICTION / Thrillers
KW  - fast
KW  - Racism
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Theft
KW  - Plagiarism
KW  - Experimental fiction
KW  - Fraud
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Psychological fiction
N2  - "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--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. 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 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 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."--
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