Yellow Face
R.F. Kuang • 2023
Devastation Rating
race publishing guilt identity
Our Take
June Hayward steals a dead Chinese American writer's manuscript and publishes it as her own. Kuang makes the publishing industry the villain and June the instrument — an ordinary white woman doing what ordinary white women are permitted to do. The spiral of rationalization is exquisite and damning.
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