NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - F****rom
the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science
Fictional Universe comes "one of the funniest books of the year.... A
delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire" (The Washington Post).****
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.
