Yellowface
Rebecca F Kuang, 2023
319 pages
Read in 2025.06
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽
✔ A satire and critique of media and publishing industry
✔ Asian American women and using the race
✔ Thrilling and gripping
★★★★★ I knew it was super popular, and I agree, it's an absolute gem. Facts are not important here, just like over here in the society we live in. It's like I'm watching (peeking) something I shouldn't, and addictive, can't stop it.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
I knew it was very popular but I didn't know anything about the story, and it was not what I expected from the title (not that revealing except it's to do with Asian) and definitely better than what I expected.
I thought it'd be more simple, more like a story from Athena's point of view, but no, it's June's story, how the white average girl envied the beautiful and talented Asian girl, and went too far and caused such a mess.
It's exciting, it's difficult to pigeon hole, and it's so now, so true and so entertaining.
It's a story of a bunch of narcissists bitching about everyone else, the facts are no longer important but that's life and life moves on.
And I know Kuang's new book, Katabasis, is out, and I have to reduce my tsundoku (tbr) to at least 100 to get even more books... if I can resist.
🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
Yellowface: A Reese's Book Club Pick
●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Yellowface: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from author R.F. Kuang (colour may vary)
●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Yellowface - Italiano Mondadori
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