Helen Laser Interview: Best Fiction Audiobooks 2023
On narrating YELLOWFACE
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Show Notes
Narrator Helen Laser joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to discuss her narration of YELLOWFACE, R.F. Kuang’s novel with a sharp look at the publishing world and one of AudioFile’s 2023 Best Fiction Audiobooks. Laser gives a mesmerizing performance as June Hayward, a struggling author who steals her dead friend’s manuscript, passing it off as her own, and publishing it while pretending she is Asian. It’s a riveting production of a thrilling and thought-provoking story. Laser shares the challenges of narrating YELLOWFACE, and what has stayed with her about this audiobook.
Read AudioFile’s review of the audiobook. Published by Harper Audio.
AudioFile’s 2023 Best Fiction Audiobooks are:
CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, read by Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch, Lee Osorio
THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride, read by Dominic Hoffman
I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU by Rebecca Makkai, read by Julia Whelan, JD Jackson
THE LATE AMERICANS by Brandon Taylor, read by Kevin R. Free
TOM LAKE by Ann Patchett, read by Meryl Streep
YELLOWFACE by R.F. Kuang, read by Helen Laser
For the full list of 2023 Best Audiobooks visit our website.
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