How long does it take to read Yellowface?
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2023. 352 pages, about 96,800 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Yellowface is a 2023 satirical novel by R. F. Kuang, narrated in the first person by June Hayward, a struggling young white writer. When Athena Liu, a celebrated Chinese-American author and June's former classmate, dies with June as the only witness, June takes Athena's unpublished manuscript about Chinese workers during the First World War, edits it, and presents it as her own work. A publisher offers her a large advance, and she releases it under an Asian-sounding version of her name. The book satirizes racial diversity in publishing and examines social media, especially Twitter.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: cultural appropriation, Books About Books, plagerism, literary theft
