I read those sooo quick and enjoyed the weirdness and embarrassment of those. Also liked how they were set in academia/writing scene. I desperately crave something similar!
If You Could See The Sun by Ann Liang – it’s about a super smart girl attending an international school in China. It’s magical realism and she accidentally finds out that she can turn invisible. She teams up with her academic rival and they make an anonymous app where people pay them to accomplish morally/ethically questionable tasks. Academic setting, enemies to friends to lover, some secondhand embarrassment and the stakes progressively increase. It reminded me of reading Yellowface, when June just keeps digging herself deeper and deeper.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green – honestly, the FMC in this book reminded me of June from Yellowface. April May accidentally becomes the first person to interact with a mysterious robot that shows up in NYC, deemed “NYC Carl.” More “Carls” show up in different cities across the world and there’s a theory that they might be aliens, and April May made first contact. April totally lets the notoriety go to her head as she starts making appearances on TV, getting paid for interviews, neglecting her personal relationships in favor of more beneficial professional ones.
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If You Could See The Sun by Ann Liang – it’s about a super smart girl attending an international school in China. It’s magical realism and she accidentally finds out that she can turn invisible. She teams up with her academic rival and they make an anonymous app where people pay them to accomplish morally/ethically questionable tasks. Academic setting, enemies to friends to lover, some secondhand embarrassment and the stakes progressively increase. It reminded me of reading Yellowface, when June just keeps digging herself deeper and deeper.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green – honestly, the FMC in this book reminded me of June from Yellowface. April May accidentally becomes the first person to interact with a mysterious robot that shows up in NYC, deemed “NYC Carl.” More “Carls” show up in different cities across the world and there’s a theory that they might be aliens, and April May made first contact. April totally lets the notoriety go to her head as she starts making appearances on TV, getting paid for interviews, neglecting her personal relationships in favor of more beneficial professional ones.