{"product_id":"yellowface","title":"Yellowface","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat’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 \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enot\u003c\/em\u003e Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F Kuang, the #1 \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBabel\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthors 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo 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 \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller list seems to agree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith its totally immersive first-person voice, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYellowface \u003c\/em\u003etakes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\" id=\"desc_contributorbio0063250837-content\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca F. Kuang\u003c\/strong\u003e is the #1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand #1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBabel: An Arcane History\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYellowface\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007075762465,"sku":"9780063250857","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/8521\/9617\/files\/Screenshot2023-09-26at10.22.11PM.png?v=1695792174","url":"https:\/\/www.onwaverly.com\/products\/yellowface","provider":"On Waverly","version":"1.0","type":"link"}