Friday Night Column

Unputdownable !

Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5- Fiction

When you can’t stop yourself from finishing a book , it sure is a sign of an excellent read .
This is a very different book. It is an insider’s view on the publishing industry in the U.S. It’s a satire of their obsession with diversity but in the form of token representation.
It also puts forth the dilemma about who gets to tell a story and how in some way or the other every writer is exploiting another person’s truth by telling it even if they are able to articulate it better .
The book also touches upon the anxieties of the current generation due to rampant exposure to public opinion and trolling courtesy Twitter, Instagram etc.
A contemporary novel narrated in first person by a white female author who has stolen the script of her next book from her friend , a famous (now deceased ) Asian American author.
The honesty with which the writer has put forth the various tropes of publishing world is brilliant without being banal.
It’s not just what the book unwraps , it is also the thriller-like page turner quality of prose that makes this book a definite goodread .

Do give this one a go .