Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu · 2020
Literary Fiction · ranked #240 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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