Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

 

Hello my lovely readers!

This was a vacation read for me while out in Egypt and Jordan and this book was...interesting, but very surface level. Let's get into it!

SYNOPSIS

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu are supposed to be rising stars in the publishing world, but Athena comes out on top as a cross-genre literary darling while June can't even get a paperback release of her debut novel.

When Athena dies in front of June, she acts on impulse and steals Athena's "masterpiece," an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.

June Hayward soon becomes Juniper Song and becomes a New York Times bestselling author thanks to the edits she made to Athena's novel, which no one knows about.

But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (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.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Hello my lovely readers!

This was another re-read for me. I hadn't read this book since high school and this book, along with The Awakening are two books that I'll regularly (and happily) re-read in each decade of my life. Let's get into it!

SYNOPSIS

Independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person which is unheard of for a Black woman in the 1930s. Janie's quest for identity take her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

 

Hello my lovely readers!

When I saw that Richard Wright had a new book coming out in the Year of Our Lord 2021 you know I had to pick it up! It did not disappoint. Let's get into it.

SYNOPSIS

Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighborhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from the precinct and takes up residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago.