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Interior Chinatown: A Novel

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Interior Chinatown: A Novel

A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to playâ€”by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.Â

Willis Wu doesnâ€™t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: Heâ€™s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always 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. Heâ€™s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guyâ€”the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least thatâ€™s what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more.
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Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yuâ€™s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 2020-01-28
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307907196

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