Zhovtolyka - Rebecca Kwan

"Yellow-faced" is Rebecca Kwan's first work, in which she departs from epic and fantasy and experiments with the genre of the satirical novel. This is a story about temptations, passions, and conflicts in the world of writers and publishers. It is about the dream of fame and the price a person is willing to pay for it. It's about envy, gossip, plagiarism, racism and racism in reverse. Atena Liu and Juniper Hayward studied at Yale together, attended a writing course, and should have risen to fame at the same time. But Athena is a real literary star with six-figure royalties, and almost no one has heard of Juniper. Everything changes when June witnesses Athena's sudden death and steals her newly completed masterpiece, an experimental novel about the role of Chinese workers in World War I. The writer edits the manuscript and sends it to her agent as her own work. She even allows the publishing house to change her name to Juniper Song, which would hint at her Asian origin. So what? Doesn't this part of the story deserve to be told, no matter who it is? That's exactly what June thinks, and the most prestigious literary ratings confirm it. But Juniper can't get out of Athena's shadow, and sometimes she even imagines that she's not really dead and is watching her. And soon, anonymous accusations of stealing the manuscript appear on the social network... So now the successful author must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her secret and keep her dream fame.