Description: Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner) (Vintage Contemporaries) Paperback – November 17, 2020 Like New 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 adeeply 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.
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Release Year: 2020
Book Title: Interior Chinatown : a Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Item Length: 8 in
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Author: Charles Yu
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary, Asian American
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Book Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 9.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
