u201cHard to put down, harder to forget.u201d u2014 Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling authornnWhite lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequencesu2026 Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didnu2019t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian Americanu2014in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel.nnAuthors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athenau2019s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.nnSo when June witnesses Athenau2019s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athenau2019s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.nnSo what if June edits Athenau2019s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Songu2014complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesnu2019t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? Thatu2019s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.nnBut June canu2019t get away from Athenau2019s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring Juneu2019s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
