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Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
4.25

β€œπ”‡π”¬π”«'𝔱 𝔴𝔒 π”žπ”©π”© π”΄π”žπ”«π”± π”ž 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔒𝔫𝔑 𝔴π”₯𝔬 𝔴𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔒𝔳𝔒𝔯 𝔠π”₯π”žπ”©π”©π”’π”«π”€π”’ 𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔰𝔲𝔭𝔒𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔢, π”Ÿπ”’π” π”žπ”²π”°π”’ 𝔱π”₯𝔒𝔢 π”žπ”©π”―π”’π”žπ”‘π”Ά 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 π”ž 𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔱 π” π”žπ”²π”°π”’? 𝔇𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔴𝔒 π”žπ”©π”© 𝔫𝔒𝔒𝔑 𝔰𝔬π”ͺ𝔒𝔬𝔫𝔒 𝔴𝔒 π” π”žπ”« π”±π”―π”’π”žπ”± π”žπ”° π”ž 𝔭𝔲𝔫𝔠π”₯𝔦𝔫𝔀 π”Ÿπ”žπ”€?β€œ

Published: 25/05/23
Publisher: The Borough Press
Genre: Satire, psychological fiction, literary fiction 
Page count: 326
Format read: πŸ“±
Other books read by this author: ππšπ›πžπ₯

After watching her far more successful fellow author/friend Athena die in a freak accident, Juniper thinks it’s a fantastic idea to steal Athena’s unpublished manuscript & pass it off as her own whilst managing to convince herself that she hasn’t done anything wrong in a series of increasingly impressive mental gymnastics. A satirical look at the publishing industry, cultural appropriation, racism, Asian fetishisation, social media & cancel culture. I was in a reading slump when I picked this up, & had devoured it within 24hrs. A compulsively readable story with a thoroughly unlikeable narrator.