Interior Chinatown

Interior Chinatown Book Description 2020 National Book Award Winner Charles Yu, who contributed his articles and stories to publications such as Time, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Vice, was named one of the five promising writers by the National Book Foundation in 2007, and has appeared in television series such as Westworld and Legion. He worked as a story consultant and screenwriter, and his second novel, Interior Chinatown, won the National Book Award in 2020. The entire United States is like a movie set from start to finish, and Willis Wu feels like he's not the main character of his life, like he's just an extra in some television series. Every day he goes to work at the Golden Palace, that restaurant where the same detective series, Black and White, is constantly being filmed. To the place where he dreams of becoming the Kung Fu Man, not the cliché Asian Man, where he will finally learn the true history of his immigrant family and Chinatown. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is a novel of immigrants and extras beyond the boundaries determined by social prejudices, of the others left behind the stage. “It's clever and very funny... It makes fun of the racist imagination and takes us deep into the humanity of those who resist being treated as human beings and those who suffer from this problem.” –Viet Thanh Nguyen “Interior Chinatown is a must-read novel for anyone who is obsessed with popular culture, belonging, and how we all constantly take on different roles.” –Charlie Jane Anders (From the Promotional Bulletin)