Goodreads Choice Awards winner. #1 NEW YORK TIMES and AMAZON bestseller. Reese Witherspoon's Pick - Reese's Book Club. Writers June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be rising stars at the same time. But Athena is a literary sensation, and June's novel isn't selling. After all, it seems that no one in the modern world is interested in stories about ordinary white girls. So when June witnesses Athena's death in an accident, she acts impulsively: she steals a colleague's unfinished novel about the unknown exploits of Chinese workers in World War I. So what if June edits Athena's draft and sends it to a literary agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher publish it under the pseudonym Juniper Song and put an ethnically ambiguous photo of the author on the cover? When a story deserves to be told, it doesn't matter who the storyteller is, does it? At least, June herself thinks so, and the New York Times bestseller list confirms this. But the girl can't escape Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence and a backlash from social justice advocates threaten to CANCEL her. And now June has to find out how far she is willing to go to keep the secret and not lose everything she rightfully deserves.