LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Willis Wu doesn\'t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he\'s merely Generic Asian Man. --The New York Times Book Rev.
Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition. . . .
Fresh and beautiful.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop.
Willis Wu doesn\'t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he\'s merely Generic Asian Man. --The Washington Post Soon to be a Hulu series: from the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire. . . . 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST One of the funniest books of the year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop.
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Willis Wu doesn\'t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he\'s merely Generic Asian Man
