A review by rstock
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

5.0

RFK is an auto read for me at this point. I don’t even know how to really start my raving for this book. It is just so right now. The themes of crazy social media, the microagressions, the racism. I’ve read some reviews where they complain there is no one to root for. That’s the least of my concerns wkth this book and actually, the point. RFK knows how to write morally grey characters. And with June, right away, she’s very disliked- but as the story goes you see her racism but also, a little bit of how she came to that point. Then you identify the things told to her by the supporting characters that sprung her forward in her deceit- and it’s just so normalized but so wrong! 

Anyways, read this book. It’s really a difficult book to describe but oh so timely for our culture. There really is no other author that could have written this book bc it really could have been a disaster.