by September 20th 2022 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre: friendship fiction, literary fiction
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised—the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now Agnès is free to tell her story.
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The Book of Goose is a haunting story of friendship, art, exploitation, and memory by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.
See my full review on Goodreads.
Yellowface
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"the practice of white actors changing their appearance with makeup in order to play East Asian characters in movies, plays, etc." from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
This title seems to fit the novel, as a non-Chinese, June Hayward, steals an unpublished manuscript from her famous Chinese-American author friend, Althea Lui, passing it off as completely her own.
As Althea has died, June profits from the manuscript's publication, gaining fame and wealth, while she also pretends to be of Chinese origin, taking advantage of the publishing world's current interest in diversity in authors and books they publish.
My complete review of the book is here
Four Treasures of the Sky by
I have finished reading the second of the three books, and am currently reading the first, The Book of Goose. Do you have a favorite Chinese author that is not popularly known?
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