Yellowface Review
I have mentioned several times already that R.F. Kuang is one of if not my favorite contemporary authors and I was waiting to read ‘Yellowface’ for so long that I even preordered it at Waterstones. Now that I have finally completed it, I can say that it was 100% worth the wait! Kuang remains an incredibly important and strong voice that is capable of moving through various genres and themes while remaining recognizable. ‘Yellowface’ is told from the perspective of June Hayward, a young author with mediocre success. After witnessing the freak accident that kills her much more successful colleague, Athena Liu, June steals her manuscript and decides to publish it under her own name. Well, actually the story is about Chinese contribution in World War I and June is a white woman, so it is actually under the name of Juniper Song. Just enough where she can still claim that she is not performing yellowface, but enough that she can pretend she is some kind of Asian. But the more she is wo...