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Hard boiled wonderland review6/20/2023 When rising-star novelist Athena Liu dies suddenly, her fellow writer and frenemy June Hayward is right there to pick up the pieces - or rather, to steal Athena’s manuscript, a saga involving Chinese laborers during World War I. A dark satire on the publishing industry and the many-layered ironies of public discourse around Asian American representation, it starts with a first-chapter twist. She has already published four fantasy novels infused with Chinese history and profound questions about colonial legacies, including the “Poppy War” trilogy and last year’s bestseller, “Babel, or the Necessity of Violence.”īut Kuang’s new novel, “ Yellowface,” out Tuesday, is both a departure and a quantum leap straight into the zeitgeist. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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