{"product_id":"interior-chinatown-a-novel-national-book-award-winner-9780307948472","title":"Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - \"A shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood\" (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair) \u003c\/i\u003eand a\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003edeeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWillis 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 \u003ci\u003eBlack and White\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 attain. Or is it? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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--\u003ci\u003eInterior Chinatown\u003c\/i\u003e is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16154730\"\u003eCharles Yu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307948472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0307948471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC054000\"\u003eAsian American \u0026amp; Pacific Islander\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC045000\"\u003eFamily Life | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHARLES YU\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books, including \u003ci\u003eInterior Chinatown\u003c\/i\u003e (the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction), and the novel \u003ci\u003eHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\u003c\/i\u003e (a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine best book of the year). He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series, \u003ci\u003eWestworld.\u003c\/i\u003e He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWired, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other publications\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eTogether with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, he established the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. 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