Description: "Interior Chinatown: Novel By Yu, Charles" - (Hardcover First Edition, 2020) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "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 ReviewProduct IdentifiersPublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-100307907198ISBN-139780307907196 Product Key FeaturesBook TitleInterior Chinatown : a NovelAuthorCharles YuFormatHardcoverLanguageEnglishTopicCultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary, Asian AmericanPublication Year2020GenreFictionNumber of Pages288 PagesDimensionsItem Length8.5in.Item Height1.1in.Item Width5.9in.Item Weight16.4 OzAdditional Product FeaturesLc Classification NumberPs3625.U15i58 2020Reviews"Brilliantly unexpected and inventive, Interior Chinatown upended all the things I was sure I knew about the insidious power of stereotypes and left me feeling a little more hopeful for our collective future. Charles Yu's writing is TRANSFORMATIVE." --Jade Chang, author of The Wangs vs. the World "Most books are lucky to be either clever or deep, but Charles Yu's new novel is both, and makes it look easy. Interior Chinatown is essential reading for anyone who's obsessed with pop culture, identity, and all the ways that we're all playing roles, all the time." --Charlie Jane Anders, author of The City in the Middle of the Night "I devoured this novel. Yu masterfully orchestrates a heartbreaking and hilarious tale of race in America through the lens of the HOLLYWOOD ACTION MOVIE(tm). It's an examination of how popcorn-flick pop culture shapes our understanding of each other, and tragically, our own self-definition as Americans and as human beings." --Daniel H. Wilson, author of The Clockwork Dynasty, "I''m a big fan of Charles Yu''s writing because of his wit and inventiveness. These talents are front and center in the brilliant and hilarious Interior Chinatown , which satirizes the racist imagination and brings us deep into the humanity of those who suffer from--and struggle against--dehumanization." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer "Conflates history, sociology, and ethnography with the timeless evils of racism, sexism, and elitism in a multigenerational epic that''s both rollicking entertainment and scathing commentary. . . . Ingeniously draws on real-life Hollywood. . . . [The book''s] sobering reality will resonate with savvy readers." --Terry Hong, Booklist (starred review) "Brilliantly unexpected and inventive, Interior Chinatown upended all the things I was sure I knew about the insidious power of stereotypes and left me feeling a little more hopeful for our collective future. Charles Yu''s writing is TRANSFORMATIVE." --Jade Chang, author of The Wangs vs. the World "Inspired . . . [an] inventive drama about an Asian actor who dreams of becoming a star. . . . In spare but moving prose, [Yu] describes life among Asian Americans living as so-called foreigners [and] examines the history of bigotry against immigrants in the West for centuries. . . . An acid indictment of Asian stereotypes and a parable for outcasts feeling invisible in this fast-moving world." -- Kirkus Reviews "I have long admired Charles Yu''s daring and original fiction, and Interior Chinatown not only met my expectations--it exceeded them. I can''t recall the last time I read a novel this inventive and surprising, and which wrestled with serious issues in such a playful manner. Yu is not afraid to take risks, and he somehow, magically--beautifully--makes those risks accessible. This book is smart and fun, comedic and sincere, thought provoking and impossible to put down. Yu is one of the most exciting writers telling stories today." --Edan Lepucki, author of Woman No. 17 "This is a hilarious book. You''ll laugh at the universe Charles Yu creates, kitty-corner to our own and just so off-kilter - and then, without warning, you''ll be pulled under by the riptide and everything will suddenly make beautiful, perfect, heartbreaking, unexplainable sense. In Interior Chinatown , Yu builds a world out of clichés and stereotypes, then finds a tiny hole in the back and slowly fills it with life and history and nuance and anguish and joy and desire and grief. There is no writer with a greater talent for taking the flattening indignities of life and exploding them into vibrant, poignant mythology." --Raphael Bob-Waksberg, creator of BoJack Horseman and author of Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory "Most books are lucky to be either clever or deep, but Charles Yu''s new novel is both, and makes it look easy. Interior Chinatown is essential reading for anyone who''s obsessed with pop culture, identity, and all the ways that we''re all playing roles, all the time." --Charlie Jane Anders, author of The City in the Middle of the Night " Interior Chinatown is a fascinating novel, hilarious and melancholy, a clever depiction of Hollywood dreaming itself and a sharp critique of the nature of those dreams. If it''s said that one of the reasons we watch films and television is out of a wish to ''see ourselves,'' Yu adeptly raises the question of whether what we''re shown in response to that wish can ever be what we truly are." --Dexter Palmer, author of Mary Toft "I devoured this novel. Yu masterfully orchestrates a heartbreaking and hilarious tale of race in America through the lens of the HOLLYWOOD ACTION MOVIE(tm). It''s an examination of how popcorn-flick pop culture shapes our understanding of each other, and tragically, our own self-definition as Americans and as human beings." --Daniel H. Wilson, author of The Clockwork Dynasty, "Most books are lucky to be either clever or deep, but Charles Yu's new novel is both, and makes it look easy. Interior Chinatown is essential reading for anyone who's obsessed with pop culture, identity, and all the ways that we're all playing roles, all the time." --Charlie Jane Anders, author of The City in the Middle of the Night "I devoured this novel. Yu masterfully orchestrates a heartbreaking and hilarious tale of race in America through the lens of the HOLLYWOOD ACTION MOVIE(tm). It's an examination of how popcorn-flick pop culture shapes our understanding of each other, and tragically, our own self-definition as Americans and as human beings." --Daniel H. Wilson, author of The Clockwork DynastyTable of ContentACT 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. CHINATOWNCopyright Date2020Target AudienceTradeLccn2019-014271Dewey Decimal813/.6Dewey Edition23
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Book Title: Interior Chinatown : a Novel
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary, Asian American
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Author: Charles Yu
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