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2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post
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.
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.
"Fresh and beautiful. . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition.” —The New York Times Book Review
Interior Chinatown A Novel
by Yu, CharlesEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2020-01-28
Publisher(s): Pantheon
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Author Biography
Charles Yu is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown, winner of the 2020 National Book Award. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications.
Table of Contents
ACT I
GENERIC ASIAN MAN
ACT II
INT. GOLDEN PALACE
ACT III
ETHNIC RECURRING
ACT IV
STRIVING IMMIGRANT
ACT V
KUNG FU DAD
ACT VI
THE CASE OF THE MISSING ASIAN
ACT VII
EXT. CHINATOWN
GENERIC ASIAN MAN
ACT II
INT. GOLDEN PALACE
ACT III
ETHNIC RECURRING
ACT IV
STRIVING IMMIGRANT
ACT V
KUNG FU DAD
ACT VI
THE CASE OF THE MISSING ASIAN
ACT VII
EXT. CHINATOWN
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