Satire
by R.F. Kuang
When June Hayward witnesses her brilliant, celebrated friend Athena Liu's sudden death, she steals Athena's unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own. What follows is a biting satire of publishing, cultural appropriation, and social media that spirals into paranoia as June's lies threaten to unravel.
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