Interior Chinatown
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- ISBN: 9780307907202
- ISBN: 0307907201
- ISBN: 9780307907196
- ISBN: 0307907198
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1 online resource (270 pages) - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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- Baker & Taylor
A stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown. By the award-winning author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. - Baker & Taylor
"From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."-- - Random House, Inc.
SOON TO BE A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES ⢠NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ⢠âA shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywoodâ (Vanity Fair) and a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
Willis Wu doesnât perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: heâs 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. Heâs a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guyâthe 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 heâs 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 immigrationâInterior Chinatown is Charles Yuâs most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.