![]() ![]() ![]() After June gets a six-figure deal for it, she excises slurs used against Chinese laborers and adds a love story between a white woman and a Chinese soldier. Titled The Last Front, it’s a historical novel about the role of Chinese laborers in WWI. ![]() Since then, while watching Athena’s meteoric rise, she came to find her old friend “unbearable.” In the commotion after Athena’s death, June, who is white, pilfers a manuscript from her desk. At the celebration is June Hayward, who met Athena when they were at Yale together, and whose own career has stalled after her publisher folded. Athena Liu, who is Chinese American, dies accidentally by choking at her Washington, D.C., apartment while celebrating a movie deal for one of her novels. A struggling novelist passes off a manuscript left by her dead college friend in this excellent satire from Kuang ( Babel, or the Necessity of Violence). ![]()
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