![]() ![]() She publishes the book as Juniper Song, which could, you know, maybe be Asian. She changes her name, which was June Hayward. KELLY: You nodded to something there - that she tries to pass herself off as Chinese American. And then we get into a roller coaster of all the absurdities about publishing, all the scandals, all the lies people tell and the online pile-ons that happens when people are found to be guilty of wrongdoing. ![]() KUANG: Well, June decides to steal Athena's unpublished manuscript and pass it off as her own, all the while passing herself off as Chinese American when she's not. KELLY: So in a nutshell, what happens next? Kuang, and I want to say welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. They are friends - kind of - until Athena dies by choking on a pancake, with June watching, and with the manuscript of her next book, a masterpiece that no one - not even her editor - has seen yet, typed and neatly stacked in the next room. The other key character is Athena Liu, a spectacularly successful writer. ![]() The new novel "Yellowface" is about a thief - namely, June Hayward, a writer - not a particularly successful writer. ![]()
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