The book is a smash and now Juniper Song, as she's known, is a 21st-century literary star, which, of course, means there are online trolls, but one using a Twitter account called Athena's Ghost starts publicly connecting the dots. Her headshot purposely makes her racially ambiguous. A publisher loves the book, and then the publicity machine kicks in and they change June's name. June makes off with some of Athena's work and decides to pass it off as her own novel. We follow June Hayward, a white author who has not made it professionally when her college frenemy, Athena Liu, a glamorous and successful young Chinese American writer, chokes to death on a pancake. Yellowface takes a cold hard look at the publishing industry. Kuang's foray into realism after her award-winning debut fantasy trilogy, The Poppy War, and her bestselling Babel, also in the fantasy genre. Alison Stewart: This is All Of It on WNYC.
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