'My agent didn't want to submit 'Yellowface' to anybody': kuangrf talked to us about her new novel, a satire on the publishing industry.
Did it feel meta to publish a book that’s a middle finger to publishing?
This is not a book that you could publish as a debut, in part because a debut writer just doesn’t really know what they’re getting into. I couldn’t have made up how ridiculous the industry is, because whatever your imagination is, somehow the reality is worse. It took all those years of being on the receiving end of people like June to be able to consolidate them into a story that then turns around and skewers everybody. My agent didn’t want to submitto anybody.
And I think that’s what made it possible to work on this book with the team. Because even though publishing writ large is really fucked up, there are people in the industry who are still there for love of the story and the authors. That’s why they aren’t taking jobs with much higher salaries somewhere else. Working on this manuscript felt like everybody was on demon time. Like, “Fine, let’s leanI’m sure tackling your frustration was cathartic.
Writing it was super cathartic, and interning in the final draft, I felt like I’d finally let something go. After years of people telling me, “You’re only interesting because you’re Chinese American and you’re a token,” and, “The only reason why you have the audience you do is because you tick off a diversity checklist.” I know it’s all silly and irrational, but when you hear it often enough, you start wondering if it’s true.
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