The Audacious Book Club: Yellowface

The June Selection

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…