Yellowface by R. F. Kuang Romance and Matilda holds a secret

and Matilda holds a secret she must hide from even her dearest allies

Blythe has the blissful connection she'd always imagined with her child

dead-end jobs

In the Finnish wilderness

may be resisting her forbidden attraction to Bjorn

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang Romance and Matilda holds a secretJune Hayward, an unsuccessful young author, finds herself the only witness to the death of her former classmate and casual friend, Athena Liu, a Chinese American author who is an industry darling. She decides to position herself as the best friend of the author and begins to edit and re write Athena's latest unpublished manuscript, a novel about Chinese laborers in World War I. As she changes more and more of the draft, June begins to feel ownership