Fort Collins Reads Presents R.F. Kuang

Join Fort Collins Reads in celebrating our 22nd year bringing renowned authors and thought-provoking books to Fort Collins!

We are thrilled to bring author R.F. Kuang to Fort Collins to discuss her recent novel Yellowface.

The event is on October 27th, at 2pm at the Fort Collins Marriott. Doors open at 1pm. Come early for the basket raffle! Author talk will be followed by book signing.

• General Admission Tickets $20
• Reserved "Author's Circle" Seating Tickets $30
• Reception with Author at Old Firehouse on Saturday, October 26th, 5-7pm $60
  Reception ticket includes Reserved Ticket to the event on Sunday. Meet the author, chat with other Fort Collins readers, and enjoy drinks and light fare!

Tickets are also available for purchase in person at Old Firehouse Books or Makerfolk in Old Town, Fort Collins. Avoid online fees and pick up a copy of the book at the same time!

PARKING INFO:

Free parking will be available at the Fort Collins Marriott.

ABOUT R.F. KUANG:

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.
ABOUT THE BOOK:

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

“Hard to put down, harder to forget.” — Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author

White 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 certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel.

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 as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.

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.

With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

"Yellowface is one of the most transfixing novels I’ve read in ages… Kuang boldly interrogates literary hot-button issues like privilege, appropriation, and authenticity, leaving it open for readers themselves to decide where to draw the line." — Zakiya Dalila Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Black Girl

Copies of Yellowface are available at Old Firehouse Books at a 20% discount for those participating in our event.

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