If reading it feels a bit like watching a train crash in slow motion, then I’ll have done my job.

You’re supposed to feel sick to your stomach, and sick of everyone involved, and unsure of what to believe except that you still can’t look away. I’ve tried to imitate the breathless, gossipy voice of tabloids and viral threads (you know, the ones with flagrant disregard for truth). Babel is a slow read Yellowface is meant to be devoured in a single sitting. Babel was my big ponderous Dickensian bildungsroman Yellowface, on the other hand, is a zippy, ridiculous, thriller meant to imitate the roiling schadenfreude of watching a Twitter meltdown. Since wrapping up the Poppy War trilogy I’ve enjoyed playing around with vastly different genres and writing styles. Yellowface could not be more different from my previous work. It's coming out in a month and I can't wait to share it with you all. Since wrapping up the Poppy War trilogy I’ve enjoyed playing aro This is my book! My ridiculous, absurd, gremlin book. This is my book! My ridiculous, absurd, gremlin book.

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