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Title
Interior Chinatown / Charles Yu.
Author
Yu, Charles, 1976- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780307907196 (hardcover)
0307907198 (hardcover)
9780307907202 (electronic book)
0307907198 (hardcover)
9780307907202 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
Language
English
Description
270 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
PS3625.U15 I58 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.6
Summary
Every day Willis Wu 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-- and he sees his life as a script. After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he has ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family, and what that means for him in today's America. -- adapted from jacket.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
Awards
National Book Award, 2020.
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Table of Contents
Generic Asian man
Int. Golden Palace
Ethnic recurring
Striving immigrant
Kung fu dad
The case of the missing Asian
Ext. Chinatown.
Int. Golden Palace
Ethnic recurring
Striving immigrant
Kung fu dad
The case of the missing Asian
Ext. Chinatown.