Reese Witherspoon has selected R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface as the latest pick for her popular book club.

Kuang’s novel, published in May by Morrow/HarperCollins, follows June Hayward, an author who steals a manuscript from Athena Liu, a writer who has died in a freak accident. June edits the novel, about Chinese laborers in World War I, and publishes it under the name Juniper Song, only to see it become a New York Times bestseller.

A critic for Kirkus called the novel “a quick, biting critique of the publishing industry.”

Witherspoon announced the pick in an Instagram video. “You guys, I could not put this book down,” she said. “It is fascinating.…There’s this crazy moral question at the center about plagiarism, and then it evolves into a whole social media backlash moment that is fascinating to read about and watch. It’s crazy the journey that this main character goes on.”

Witherspoon isn’t the only celebrity to endorse Kuang’s novel. On Monday, Stephen King tweeted about the book, writing, “This is a great read. Crime, satire, horror, paranoia, questions of cultural appropriation. Plenty of nasty social media pile-ons, too. But basically, just a great story. Hard to put down, harder to forget.”

A delighted Kuang retweeted King’s post, commenting, “What!!!!! From the master of unputdownable books.”

Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.