FMV Book Club: ‘Yellowface’ by R.F. Kuang

Date: 29.01.2024
Time: 18:00
Host: Female Minority Voices



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Welcome to the first The Female Minority Voices Book Club meeting of the year! For January, our book pick is Yellowface by R.F. Kuang.

About the book: Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Fiction (2023) Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody.

White lies:
When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.

Dark humour:
But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

Deadly consequences:
What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.
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OFFER: Our team member Rodolfo Baldinotti will be able to order the book for those of you who want to use this offer. He will give a list to the bookstore (Norli Strandgaten) and you will be contacted when the book is ready to be picked up (payment then and there).

Send an email with your full name and contact information to femaleminorityvoices@gmail.com

And as always, if you don't get the chance to read the book, come anyway! The book functions as a conversation starter, so just read up on the theme/topic of the book, and join us for a good conversation - and bring a friend! See you there!

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