Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody 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 to the British and French war efforts during World War I.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Racism, including microaggressions & slurs
- Bullying
- Cyberharassment, including doxxing
- Sexual assault & rape recounted
- Emotional abuse, specifically gaslighting
- Suicidal ideation
- Alcohol consumption
- Emesis
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a daughter
- Death of a friend
- Graphic death by choking
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