The Audacity.

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The Audacity.
The Audacity.
The Audacious Book Club: Yellowface
The Audacious Book Club

The Audacious Book Club: Yellowface

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Roxane Gay
Jun 12, 2023
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The Audacious Book Club: Yellowface
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R.F. Kuang’s new novel Yellowface begins with a moment of genuine bodily horror: after a night out with her frenemy Athena—the beautiful, brilliant, best-selling author—struggling novelist June Hayward watches as Athena chokes to death on a pandan pancake in her apartment. While the logistics of that horror play out in the public eye, beneath it lurks a…

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