Join us for our monthly book club hosted by Jess G Reads. March’s book is Yellowface By R. F. Kuang
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Yellowface has been one of the must-read books of the summer for me. As someone who has been a writer actively publishing her work for about eight years now, and also as someone who has worked and dabbled with the publishing industry, I love a good shade towards the industry and its practices.
As an Iranian-American I’ve noticed how my own work has been treated by white editors and competitions, which has made me often step away from the publishing side of things and performing to meet the expectations of a white audience. I just write whatever I want these days. Regardless, what I was hearing Yellowface was about was straight up my alley.
So I joined the waitlist of fifty other people at my local library to get my hands on a physical copy. I had previously read Babel and thought it was okay; the world building was incredible, but Kuang ended up going way too overboard trying to make it seem like a historical text—I thought the characters and format felt very off because of it.