![]() I’d never really written literary fiction before. KUANG: Yellowface is a big gear shift for me. This character, June, is so complicated, and I don’t like her, but I really like her, and I love reading about this journey that she’s falling down. I loved your book, and for me the biggest indicator of when I’m reading or watching something compelling is, I keep telling my husband every single thing that’s happening. I feel like our books are related, like sisters. When I told my friend I was going to talk to you, she didn’t believe it. One of my closest friends and I started reading The Other Black Girl the moment it came out in 2021, and we screamed and chatted about it for weeks. ![]() I need to get all my fangirling out of the way before we start. ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS: It’s so nice to meet you. It’s a satirical story about the pitfalls of identity politics that for both writers, is a little too familiar. ![]() Kuang’s latest novel, follows a young white woman, June, as her life blossoms-then unravels-after plagiarizing a book written by her Asian-American “bestie,” Athena. ![]() Kuang had never spoken to writer Zakiya Dalila Harris before this interview, but the best-selling novelists-who have both written about the publishing industry’s thirst to capitalize off of race and identity-were ready to get into it. ![]()
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