Come join us on November 5th at 12:10pm for our November Brown Bag book club discussion! We will discuss R.F. Kuang’s New York Times bestseller, Yellowface.Â
Famed author Athena Liu’s sudden death opens a window for June Hayward, her friend and fellow author who lives in Athena’s shadow. June locates Athena’s unfinished draft of a novel on Chinese laborers during the First World War.
June, now Juniper Song, is now that bestselling author she dreamt of. Everything is perfect…until the public starts catching on.
From goodreads.com, the full book description is: Authors Juniper Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena is a literary darling while June is a 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, stealing Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers 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? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.
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.”
Book discussion questions can be found at bookclub.com.
This author also did a virtual author talk, available through this link at Library Speakers Consortium.
