absolutely delicious story.

jealousy explored through multiple angles in the publishing industry. Athena, a successful asian american author, and June, a white woman with only a flop debut, are frenemies. While hanging out celebrating Athena’s latest multimillion success they engage in a pancake eating contest and Athena chokes and dies. June has stolen Athena’s latest unseen manuscript and edits and publishes it as her own, publishing under an ethnically suggestive pseudonym. She then struggles to keep up with her lies and battle the ghosts of her past. 

a main character who is so terrible but makes you feel absolutely gross for feeling sympathy for while also seeing so blatantly the racism and micro aggressions she is doing daily. an interesting look at racism, publishing, and jealousy.