![]() 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. Or is it?Īfter 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. but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy-the highest aspiration he can imagine for a Chinatown denizen. 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. Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. On the police procedural Black and White, which is. ![]() ![]() The story focuses on Willis Wu, an Asian American actor. ![]() 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. Interior Chinatown Summary I nterior Chinatown is a 2020 novel by Charles Yu. ![]()
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