Wildly innovative; a perfect marriage of form and function....
The first Chinese came in 1815. . . . Why doesn't this face register as American? At its core, Interior Chinatown is a meditation on the Chinese American immigration and assimilation experience. It...
This book is brilliant. It shows what you can do when you write with perception, humor and creativity about something you have experienced and understand intimately. No cultural appropriation here. He...
*inhales sharply* *screams*This book makes me feel seen. Interior Chinatown is a humorous look at Asians in film and the roles Asians in general are forced to play. There's Kung Fu Guy, Generic Asian ...
update: CONGRATS... nominated a National book award!!Generic Asian man, Golden palace, ethnic recurringStriving immigrant, kung Fu dad, The chase seven missing Asian, ChinatownI had no idea what to ex...
Now Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2020You have to applaud Yu for crafting a unique narrative set-up: His novel merges the storyline of a TV crime procedural with the life of a young ma...
The question is: Who gets to be an American? What does an American look like? We’re trapped as guest stars in a small ghetto on a very special episode. Minor characters locked into a story that does...
Setting: Interior ChinatownCharacter #1: Generic Asian ManTime: Present Day (sadly)What a clever, clever book this is! Charles Yu’s award-winning 2020 novel is a lean, mean, satire machine, packing ...
Wow, I love this book so much. Most books are lucky to be either clever or deep, but Interior Chinatown is both, and makes it look easy. Charles Yu has so much to say about the formulas that make up p...
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is a 2020 Pantheon Books publication. I had forgotten the premise of this book as I didn’t get around to reading it when it was first published, but for some reason...