Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * "A shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood" (Vanity Fair) and 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 the protagonist in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet 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 most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. 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. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration--Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional World, written by Charles Yu, was chosen one of Time magazine's top books of the year. He was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Prize and awarded the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award for his story collection Third Class Superhero. His writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Playboy, and Slate, among others. Yu, his wife Michelle, and their two daughters live in Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13	9780307948472
ISBN 10	0307948471
Title	Interior Chinatown
Author	Charles Yu
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2020-11-17
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Winner of National Book Award 2020
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