INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK“Hard to put down, harder to forget.”—Stephen King, #1New York Timesbestselling authorWhite lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainlynotAsian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofBabel.Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally 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: she steals 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
