I really wanted to like Yellowface but struggled with it. A white woman steals her dead Chinese friend’s manuscript and passes of as somewhat ambiguously Asian in order to get famous. I liked a lot of the critique of the publishing industry and the discussions of diversity and racism. I feel like the book would’ve been more impactful if the narrator had any redeeming qualities. I know the reader is supposed to hate her, but she is so awful she just comes across like a cartoon villain. The story is also very repetitive, which made it difficult to get through the whole thing. There were several hours of just waiting for her career to fall apart and several of the repetitive scenarios could’ve been combined to make it more concise.
Yellowface
- Author: R. F. Kuang
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- Format: audibook
- Start: 2024-10-10
- Finish: 2024-10-24