Program Type:
Book Discussions- Registration is required for this event.
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Program Description
This month we will be reading and discussing "Yellowface" by R.F. Kuang.
Ever since they met at Yale as freshmen, June Hayward has watched Athena Liu grow into a writer and best-selling author, while June can barely get publishers to look twice at her debut. When Athena dies in a freak incident, June finds and rewrites her friend’s unpublished manuscript about Chinese laborers, passing it off as her own under the racially ambiguous pen name, Juniper Song. The book receives rave reviews, and June skyrockets to the best-seller list, much to the joy of her publishers and literary agent. The public loves Juniper Song. But things quickly spiral downward when accusations of plagiarism arise on social media, and June can’t stop seeing Athena’s ghost haunting her wherever she goes. When her new status is threatened, though, June realizes she will do whatever it takes to stay at the top.
"Yellowface" is available through our catalog, and as an eBook and an eAudiobook through Cloudlibrary. Please visit our front desk or call 941-861-1744 to reserve a copy of the book.
We will be meeting in-person in the Shannon Staub Library Conference Room.