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100	1		_aKuang, R. F. _q(Rebecca F.), _eauthor. _9130989
245	1	0	_aYellowface / _cRebecca F. Kuang.
246	3		_aYellow face.
264		1	_aLondon : _bThe Borough Press, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023.
300			_a323 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
520			_aWhite lies. Dark humour. Deadly consequences... 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. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who 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 labourers 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 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.
650		0	_aAuthors _vFiction. _910934
650		0	_aAuthorship _vFiction. _94138
650		0	_aAsian Americans _vFiction. _9123566
650		0	_aChinese American authors _vFiction. _9130990
650		0	_aImpostors and imposture _vFiction. _913032
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcgft. _91405
655		7	_aThrillers (Fiction) _2lcgft. _97311
945			_i31111088322696 _p$20.99
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