Book jacket image for Y/N by Esther Yi

Astra House

9781662601538

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Y/N

Esther Yi has set a new standard for internet-influenced literature with Y/N, one of the most daring novels of the year.

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Review of ‘Y/N’

It’s time for the literary world to take fanfiction seriously. Well into the internet age, contemporary literature is profoundly shaped by online aesthetics and sensibilities, but for some reason fanfiction remains outcast. Esther Yi’s debut novel gives fanfiction, and stan culture more broadly, the piercing, unhinged analytic treatment it deserves. Beginning with…

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