Varun Iyer

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Honor & Heresy

by Max Francis (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 29, 2026 09:08PM

“I would have liked Allie better if she were a shy, bookish type I could have taken on shopping sprees at indie bookstores instead of an iPhone-addicted, TikTok-obsessed basic bitch in training.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“I dub historical exploitation novels: inauthentic stories that use troubled pasts as an entertaining set piece for white entertainment.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“Publishing gossip, it turns out, is a lot of fun when you’re speculating about other people’s misfortune.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“personality makeover. Or maybe not. The more I think about it, the more this sounds like the plots of Ratatouille and Mulan combined.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“and who thought that Asian identification boiled down to being annoyingly obsessed with bubble tea and BTS were diluting the radical force of the diaspora canon.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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