Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be two rising stars. But Athena is a literary darling. June Hayward is a nobody. Who wants stories about ordinary white girls? June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a strange accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's recently completed masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unrecognized contributions of Chinese workers during World War I. So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as if it were her own work? What if she allows her new publisher to rename her Juniper Song, complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the narrator may be? That's what June says, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.