Yellowface by R.F. KuangMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hooter: Like watching a car wreck, directed by Wes Anderson.
Yellowface is a sharp, addictive publishing-world thriller that’s equal parts entertaining and uncomfortable. In a freak accident, a white washed out writer is around a highly accomplished Asian writer when she dies. She has an opportunity to take her top secret book script and pass it off as her own to revive her career. It becomes a roller coaster ride after that.
Slipping into June’s messy, self-justifying mind feels like watching a slow-motion car crash: you cannot look away even as she spirals deeper into theft, racism, and self-delusion. Kuang’s pacing is relentless, her satire of “performative diversity” and online outrage cut-throat, and the result is a book that reads like a Twitter storm you binge in one sitting and then keep thinking about for days
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