Interior Chinatown (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780307907196)

SOON TO BE 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.

Author: Charles Yu
ISBN-10: 0307907198
ISBN-13: 9780307907196
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2020
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.10d
Award: National Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2019 pg. 56
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 18
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2019
Shelf Awareness 01/28/2020