Social Justice Book Club: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

For AAPI Heritage Month, we will discuss Yellowface by R. F. Kuang. Authors Juniper Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena is a literary darling while June is a nobody. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse, stealing Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

Copies of the book will be available at McMahon Wintonbury and Prosser, or you can read/listen to it on Hoopla.