In partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium, we're streaming Asian American Representation in Literature: A Virtual Author Talk with Rebecca F. Kuang. This is a live author event with an interactive Q&A session!
Rebecca F. Kuang is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge University and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford University and is a PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Chinese literature and Asian American literature.
Join us for a conversation with Kuang about her New York Times bestselling novel, Yellowface. In Yellowface, June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling while June Hayward is literally nobody. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she impulsively steals Athena’s just-finished 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? But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and slowly, the evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-ship and a page turner.
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