Yellowface

Juniper Song and Athena Liu are both writers, but there the similarity ends. Athena is brilliant, critically acclaimed, effortlessly successful — and Chinese-American. Juniper is white, moderately talented, and perpetually overlooked. When Athena dies in a freak accident in front of Juniper's eyes, Juniper makes a decision that will destroy her: she takes Athena's unpublished manuscript about Chinese labourers in World War One and publishes it as her own.

The book becomes a phenomenon. Then the internet finds out. What follows is a darkly funny, unflinching dissection of the publishing industry, cultural appropriation, and the ways we justify our worst impulses to ourselves. As the scandal spirals and Juniper's grip on her story loosens, Yellowface asks: who gets to tell whose story — and what are we willing to do to keep it?

From the bestselling author of Babel, a scathing and compulsive satire you won't be able to put down.