Summary

In Chapter 5, June has a “videoconference meeting” with her publicity team (58). Because her last experience “was awful,” she is nervous (58). The meeting does go well, but the team asks about June’s right to write the story when she is “not Chinese” (60). They ultimately agree that “anyone should be able to tell any kind of story” (60).

Because her debut was unsuccessful, they decide to rebrand June. The Last Front will be published under the name Juniper Song. Juniper is June’s given name and Song is her middle name. Though some might mistake Song “for a Chinese name,” June is not pretending “to be Chinese” (61, 62).

Daniella asks June about working with “a Chinese or Chinese diaspora sensitivity reader” (63). Sensitivity readers proofread manuscripts for “textual representations” that might be “consciously, or unconsciously racist” (63). June declines. Candice Lee, the editorial assistant, pushes for the sensitivity...