White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences…What’s the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, & she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling & hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang (the author ofBabel) in the vein ofWhite IvyandThe Other Black Girl.Authors June Hayward & Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally 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: she steals 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? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, & theNew York Timesbestseller list seems to agree.But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, & emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.With its totally immersive first-person voice,Yellowfacegrapples with questions of diversity, racism, & cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media.R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, & eminently readable.°°°Rebecca F. Kuangis the #1 NY Times & #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of thePoppy Wartrilogy,Babel: An Arcane History. Her work has won theNebula,Locus,Crawford, &British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge & an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford.