NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Willis Wu doesn\'t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he\'s merely Generic Asian Man.
He\'s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being K.
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.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Willis Wu doesn\'t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he\'s merely Generic Asian Man