I am interested in how every social media interaction is a performance, how we build parasocial relationships with constructed personalities, how easily snippets of misinformation can turn into a wildfire, and how we all go to pieces when it’s revealed (as is always the case) that things are not as they seem. What is Yellowface about? Aside from the obvious questions of whiteness in publishing and the persistent erasure of Asian voices in Western literature, I am interested in the specific horrors of being writers, readers, and critics on the internet in 2022 in a literary field that is so intensely connected, fragmented, and artificial. If reading it feels a bit like watching a train crash in slow motion, then I’ll have done my job. You’re supposed to feel sick to your stomach, and sick of everyone involved, and unsure of what to believe except that you still can’t look away. I’ve tried to imitate the breathless, gossipy voice of tabloids and viral threads (you know, the ones with flagrant disregard for truth). Babel is a slow read Yellowface is meant to be devoured in a single sitting. Babel was my big ponderous Dickensian bildungsroman Yellowface, on the other hand, is a zippy, ridiculous, thriller meant to imitate the roiling schadenfreude of watching a Twitter meltdown. Since wrapping up the Poppy War trilogy I’ve enjoyed playing around with vastly different genres and writing styles.
Yellowface could not be more different from my previous work. It's coming out in a month and I can't wait to share it with you all.
Since wrapping up the Poppy War trilogy I’ve enjoyed playing aro This is my book! My ridiculous, absurd, gremlin book. This is my book! My ridiculous, absurd, gremlin book. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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