But even as we follow her version of events, we get no sense of why she pursues such an ill-fated trajectory, one whose inevitable end is the social media scandal. The stolen manuscript in question - a historical novel Athena drafted about the World War I-era Chinese Labour Corps - leads June down a suicidal piste of deception and pretension. The fixation in “ Yellowface” on the ethics of writing fails because it detracts from what would be the novel’s more interesting contribution: a believable and detailed account of June and Athena’s psychologies. This figure is that perfect romantic compound of bad person and good artist, but it is only an ideal, and thus tedious to encounter in a novel.
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