Breakfast Book Club

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

We read a variety of fiction titles, mainly historical fiction, and meet once a month for lively discussion and tasty refreshments. April's selection: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Breakfast Book Club will be held at the Santori Library until further notice during Eola's renovations. 

Welcome to Breakfast Book Club! Stop by Eola or Santori's 3rd floor to pick up a copy. No registration required.

For questions, please email yiota@aurorapubliclibrary.org.

Book Description:

"Authors Juniper Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena is a literary darling while June is a nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls?, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse, stealing Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.

So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves (Goodreads)".

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