Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
One of my favourite parts of adulthood is my monthly book club sitting. The Prose & Icons met at Forking Good in Bryanston this month and we discussed Yellowface! Yellowface is a satirical novel by R.F. Kuang, although sometimes the satire left the room with the author’s overt lashings on the industry. We follow the story of June who, when her big-time young author friend dies with an unpublished manuscript by her side, steals her life. [Unrelated, there’s a sanctification that seems to be bestowed amongst those who have passed which I find interesting, probably either in reverence of death and its finality?} June is in anyway as annoying as any entitled mediocre MC can be but oh did we love to hate her! The callousness with which she carries herself throughout her shenanigans would be admirable if it weren’t so haphazard to everyone else around her. I have never engaged with Kuang’s work prior to this but the book feels almost autobiographical where I could not separate the ...