Description: 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. Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even 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. At least that is what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: be more. 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. CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown (the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction), and the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (a New York Times Notable Book and a Time magazine best book of the year). 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 Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications. Together with , he established the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Writing Prizes, in honor of his parents. 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
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EAN: 9780307907196
UPC: 9780307907196
ISBN: 9780307907196
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Book Title: Interior Chinatown : a Novel
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary, Asian American
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Charles Yu
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
