Winner of Book of the Year: Fiction (2024 British Book AwardsWhite lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences...Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofBabel.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 & 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’snovel is timely, razor-sharp, & eminently readable.°°°Rebecca F. Kuangis the author of thePoppy Wartrilogy,Babel: An Arcane History, andYellowface. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge & an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale.