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cover of Yellowface

“I feel like this isn’t about me”

Yellowface (2023) by R. F. Kuang

August 10, 2024 by drmllz 1 Comment

I don’t really know what I can say about this book, which I think means it’s worked? I can say that it’s blistering, and brilliant; I can say that it fits the ‘Fiasco‘ square because it’s about someone who “reached for the stars and utterly failed…a disaster created by human actions” and in this case the disaster is a person who finds herself in a nightmare of her own making, but the disaster is also the publishing industry and the surrounding discourse, and also the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: academic satire, asian american author, cbr16bingo, drmllz, fiasco, fiasco square, Fiction, friendship, R.F. Kuang, Rebecca F. Kuang, Satire, Social Themes

drmllz's CBR16 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: academic satire, asian american author, cbr16bingo, drmllz, fiasco, fiasco square, Fiction, friendship, R.F. Kuang, Rebecca F. Kuang, Satire, Social Themes ·
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