The Sly Winked Never Really Said Out Loud

I really wanted to subvert the idea of a perfect innocent victim. I wanted to turn the question around and ask, can we talk about appropriation and stealing stories where we remove it from the question of race? And Athena has done quite a lot of stealing each other's stories. She did something very cruel to June when they were undergrads that really has no ethical excuse. Almost every other Asian American character in the novel does not have very nice things to say about Athena either. It's because she had this Cinderella story of overnight celebrity and it's messed with her head a bit. The sly winked never quite said out loud. Joke here is you have written a novel about a