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Interior Chinatown

by Charles Yu · 2020

Literary Fiction · ranked #241 in category

Winner · The National Book Award for Fiction, 2020

Willis Wu, an actor perpetually cast as 'Generic Asian Man' in a police procedural filmed in his own neighbourhood, lives his life as if it were a screenplay — formatted as a script, complete with stage directions. Yu's National Book Award-winning novel is a satire of Hollywood's treatment of Asian Americans that becomes something much stranger and sadder as it develops.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2020 · 2020s
Author
Charles Yu
Standing
Essential Read

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