Yellow Face is Rebecca Kwan's first work, in which she departs from the epic, fantasy and experiments with the satirical novel genre. This is a story about temptations, passions and conflicts in the world of writers and publishers. About the dreaminess of fame and the price a person is willing to pay for it. About envy, gossip, plagiarism, simple racism and "opposite" racism.
Athena Liu and Juniper Gayward studied together at Yale, attended a writing course and should have risen to the top of fame at the same time. But Athena is a real literary star with six-figure royalties, and almost no one has heard of Juniper.
Everything changes when June witnesses Athena's sudden death and steals her newly completed masterpiece, an experimental novel about the role of Chinese workers in the First World War. The writer edits the manuscript and sends it to the agent as her own work. Even allows the publisher to change her last name to Juniper Song, which would hint at an Asian origin. So what? Doesn't this part of the story deserve to be told, no matter by whom? This is what June thinks, and the most prestigious literary ratings confirm it.
But Juniper cannot get out of Athena's shadow, sometimes she even dreams that she is not really dead and is watching her. And soon, anonymous accusations of the theft of the manuscript appear on social networks... So now the successful author must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her secret and keep the fame she dreams of.
