I
have long had unhealthy fascinations with hoaxers and with social media drama.
And as an author, I’m drawn to stories about writers navigating the treacherous
publishing world.
It’s as if Yellowface was written to suck me in, and
it did. I blew through it in one night; this novel about a white author passing
off a dead Asian author’s manuscript as hers is as addictive as it is
compelling.
Kuang has said she wrote it to approximate the feeling of a panic
attack. Mission accomplished; my nerves jangled for hours after I finished the
book.
The No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from literary sensation R.F. Kuang
*A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick*
'Propulsive' SUNDAY TIMES
'Razor-sharp' TIME
'A wild ride' STYLIST
'Darkly comic' GQ
'A riot' PANDORA SYKES
'Hard to put down, harder to forget' STEPHEN KING
Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody.
White lies When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song.
Dark humour But as evidence threatens June's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she…
I’m
a big fan of Hightower’s work, and when I heard her read the title story of
this collection at a convention in 2022, I knew this was going to be a must-buy
when it was released.
Hightower examines experiences all too common to women
through a horrific lens, and the results are chilling and thought-provoking.
The story I related to the most, aside from the title story, was “Goddess of
Need.” If you’re a terminal people-pleaser, that one might resonate with you
too.
This account of a real-life American horror story is
nonfiction but reads like a thriller.
When the Osage tribe was moved to land in
Oklahoma that turned out to be sitting on oil fields, white criminals resolved
to do anything—including murder—to get that oil money from the Osage.
I’d never
heard about any of this before reading the book, and it’s a devastating story
full of greed, betrayal, racism, and death. I have yet to see the film based on
the book, but it’s hard to imagine a movie being any more horrifying than the
actual story.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover…
In 1937,
American circuses are trying to recoup the losses they incurred during the
Great Depression while competing with newer forms of entertainment like movie
theaters.
Kate Montgomery travels to the small town of Brixton Hill to scout a
new act for her father’s struggling circus. Lewis Oswald, a trainer and friend
of Kate’s family, introduces her to the Shadow Dancers, three young girls who
can make their shadows dance independently of their bodies.
While the act would
revive her family’s circus, Kate is horrified by the young women’s dismal
training and living conditions. She wants to help them escape their dreadful
situation, but when the Shadow Dancers take matters into their own hands,
she’ll have to save herself.
