Yellowface
R.F. Kuang, 2023
A scalpel-sharp satire of publishing: a jealous writer steals a dead friend's manuscript and learns who gets to tell which stories.
R.F. Kuang
R.F. Kuang is a Chinese-American writer best known for the Poppy War fantasy trilogy; Yellowface is her first contemporary novel and a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Feels like power, ambition and curiosity.
The particular hell of watching everyone else succeed while you're still writing.
Every writer I know feels this way about someone else. Writing is such a solitary activity. You have no assurance that what you’re creating has any value, and any indication that you’re behind in the rat race sends you spiraling into the pits of despair. Keep your eyes on your own paper, they say. But that’s hard to do when everyone else’s papers are flapping constantly in your face. Books by R.F. Kuang
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