Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition. Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet. At least that’s what he has been told, time and time again. Book discussion of this years Big Read selection, Interior Chinatown, by New York Times bestselling author Charles Yu, with coffee and Chinese pastries. 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. and was a Finalist or Shortlisted for the 2020 Prix Médicis étranger awards. 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. Interior Chinatown won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, after being announced as a finalist, and made the Long List of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop.
Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Interior Chinatown follows the story of Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Charles Yu is adapting his National Book Award-winning novel, and Taika Waititi will direct the first episode. "One of the funniest books of the year.a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." ( The Washington Post )įrom the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. ‘Interior Chinatown’ Series a Go at Hulu, Jimmy O.
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