Tues July 22nd - Yellowface

## Details

This month's book club selection is **Yellowface** by R.F. Kuang. Join us at Tourmaline Surf Park beach —don't forget to bring your favorite beach towel, drink or snack, or both! Feel free to join whether you read the book or not :)

Meet up at 5:30pm at Oscars Mexican Seafood (746 Emerald Street San Diego, CA 92109) for take-out order of tacos to bring to the beach OR simply meet us at the beach at 6:00pm by the pumphouse. Get to the beach by taking the stairs down to the beach from Loring Street or walking a block on the beach from parking lot of Tourmaline Surf Park

From book description from Goodreads:
Authors Juniper Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena is a literary darling while June is a nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls?, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse, stealing Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.

So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
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### What Is Considered a No-Show?

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### How We Handle No-Shows

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Looking forward to meeting everyone!