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Also by R.F. Kuang:

Katabasis (Standard Edition), September 2025
Hardcover
Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition), September 2025
Hardcover
The Dragon Republi, July 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Poppy War: Collector's Edition, December 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Babel, August 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Yellowface, May 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Babel, September 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Dragon Republic, July 2020
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Dragon Republic, August 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Poppy War, May 2018
Hardcover / e-Book

YELLOWFACE
By: R.F. Kuang

William Morrow
May 2023
On Sale: May 16, 2023
336 pages
ISBN: 0063250837
EAN: 9780063250833
Kindle: B0B9SN8K6H
Hardcover / e-Book
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Multicultural Asian | Fiction

White 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 #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel. 

Authors June Hayward and 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 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? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.

But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and 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, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.