Interior chinatown : A novel / Charles Yu.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Yu, Charles, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

2020.

Summary:

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 attainches 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.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York : Vintage, 2020. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2337 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).

ISBN:

9780307907202

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