26 July 2021
Interior Chinatown
From the infinitely inventive author of
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here too. . . but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the highest aspiration he can imagine for a Chinatown denizen. Or is it?
After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he's ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family, and what that means for him, in today's America.
Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.
| Title | : | Interior Chinatown |
| ISBN | : | 9780307907196 |
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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...
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*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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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