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Kindle Asian American Fiction eBook: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu - $1.99 - Amazon, Google Play, B&N Nook, Apple Books and Kobo
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2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, 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 attain. 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.
Review
"Interior Chinatown .... recalls the humorous and heartfelt short stories of George Saunders, the metafictional high jinks of Mark Leyner and films like 'The Truman Show.'"
—Adam Sternbergh, The New York Times
"[Interior Chinatown] takes the theme of social roles beautifully sideways. The novel skewers pop-culture stereotypes of Asian Americans and contends, memorably, with assimilation . . . bold, even groundbreaking, in its form. It's full of clever wordplay and in-jokes about the Chinese American experience . . . . marked by lacerating humor that blossoms into pathos. Like Percival Everett's novel Erasure, its critique of race—from an Asian American perspective—cuts. However, acidic jokes are counterbalanced by palpable tenderness around family, parenthood and the human condition . . . . Interior Chinatown solders together mordant wit and melancholic whimsy to produce a moving exploration of race and assimilation that shouldn't be missed by intellectually adventurous readers."
— Anita Felicelli, San Francisco Chronicle
"[Interior Chinatown is] comedic. It's literary. It's weird and experimental . . . a kind of a George Saundersesque alternate reality. It's all of those things, but maybe mostly, it's allegory . . . The details meticulously crafted, render a universe that feels complete to the touch."
—Pete Hsu, Los Angeles Review of Books
"[A] sharply observed, darkly humorous evocation of the Asian American experience that blurs the line between performative acts and literal small-screen performances."
—Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly
"I'm a big fan of Charles Yu's writing because of his wit and inventiveness. These talents are front and center in the brilliant and hilarious Interior Chinatown, which satirizes the racist imagination and brings us deep into the humanity of those who suffer from—and struggle against—dehumanization."
—Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
"Interior Chinatown is wrenching, hilarious, sharp, surreal, and above all, original. This is an extraordinary book by an immensely talented writer."
—Emily St. John Mandel, National Book Award finalist and author of The Glass Hotel
"Conflates history, sociology, and ethnography with the timeless evils of racism, sexism, and elitism in a multigenerational epic that's both rollicking entertainment and scathing commentary. . . . Ingeniously draws on real-life Hollywood. . . . [The book's] sobering reality will resonate with savvy readers."
—Terry Hong, Booklist (starred review)
"Charles Yu plays with how we internalize stereotypes in the movies in this sometimes devastating, sometimes hilarious, but always captivating novel."
— Meghan Keane, NPR
"Part novel, part screenplay, part screed, and part sociology, this National Book Award winner is always funny and pretty savage."
—Vulture, "The 10 Best Books of 2020"
"No one writes like Yu: he's at once sincere and funny, his father-son narratives make me tear up, his work is science-fiction-but-not, and he's always formally inventive. His new novel isn't like anything else, either: it's a novel that's also a screenplay…or a screenplay that busts out of its form to be a novel."
—The Millions, "Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview"
"Brilliantly unexpected and inventive, Interior Chinatown upended all the things I was sure I knew about the insidious power of stereotypes and left me feeling a little more hopeful for our collective future. Charles Yu's writing is TRANSFORMATIVE."
—Jade Chang, author of The Wangs vs. the World
"Inspired . . . [an] inventive drama about an Asian actor who dreams of becoming a star. . . . In spare but moving prose, [Yu] describes life among Asian Americans living as so-called foreigners [and] examines the history of bigotry against immigrants in the West for centuries. . . . An acid indictment of Asian stereotypes and a parable for outcasts feeling invisible in this fast-moving world."
—Kirkus Reviews
https://play.google.com/store/boo...iVDwAAQBA
https://www.barnesandno
https://books.apple.com/us/book/i...1461704339
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...hinatown-1
2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, 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 attain. 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.
Review
"Interior Chinatown .... recalls the humorous and heartfelt short stories of George Saunders, the metafictional high jinks of Mark Leyner and films like 'The Truman Show.'"
—Adam Sternbergh, The New York Times
"[Interior Chinatown] takes the theme of social roles beautifully sideways. The novel skewers pop-culture stereotypes of Asian Americans and contends, memorably, with assimilation . . . bold, even groundbreaking, in its form. It's full of clever wordplay and in-jokes about the Chinese American experience . . . . marked by lacerating humor that blossoms into pathos. Like Percival Everett's novel Erasure, its critique of race—from an Asian American perspective—cuts. However, acidic jokes are counterbalanced by palpable tenderness around family, parenthood and the human condition . . . . Interior Chinatown solders together mordant wit and melancholic whimsy to produce a moving exploration of race and assimilation that shouldn't be missed by intellectually adventurous readers."
— Anita Felicelli, San Francisco Chronicle
"[Interior Chinatown is] comedic. It's literary. It's weird and experimental . . . a kind of a George Saundersesque alternate reality. It's all of those things, but maybe mostly, it's allegory . . . The details meticulously crafted, render a universe that feels complete to the touch."
—Pete Hsu, Los Angeles Review of Books
"[A] sharply observed, darkly humorous evocation of the Asian American experience that blurs the line between performative acts and literal small-screen performances."
—Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly
"I'm a big fan of Charles Yu's writing because of his wit and inventiveness. These talents are front and center in the brilliant and hilarious Interior Chinatown, which satirizes the racist imagination and brings us deep into the humanity of those who suffer from—and struggle against—dehumanization."
—Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
"Interior Chinatown is wrenching, hilarious, sharp, surreal, and above all, original. This is an extraordinary book by an immensely talented writer."
—Emily St. John Mandel, National Book Award finalist and author of The Glass Hotel
"Conflates history, sociology, and ethnography with the timeless evils of racism, sexism, and elitism in a multigenerational epic that's both rollicking entertainment and scathing commentary. . . . Ingeniously draws on real-life Hollywood. . . . [The book's] sobering reality will resonate with savvy readers."
—Terry Hong, Booklist (starred review)
"Charles Yu plays with how we internalize stereotypes in the movies in this sometimes devastating, sometimes hilarious, but always captivating novel."
— Meghan Keane, NPR
"Part novel, part screenplay, part screed, and part sociology, this National Book Award winner is always funny and pretty savage."
—Vulture, "The 10 Best Books of 2020"
"No one writes like Yu: he's at once sincere and funny, his father-son narratives make me tear up, his work is science-fiction-but-not, and he's always formally inventive. His new novel isn't like anything else, either: it's a novel that's also a screenplay…or a screenplay that busts out of its form to be a novel."
—The Millions, "Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview"
"Brilliantly unexpected and inventive, Interior Chinatown upended all the things I was sure I knew about the insidious power of stereotypes and left me feeling a little more hopeful for our collective future. Charles Yu's writing is TRANSFORMATIVE."
—Jade Chang, author of The Wangs vs. the World
"Inspired . . . [an] inventive drama about an Asian actor who dreams of becoming a star. . . . In spare but moving prose, [Yu] describes life among Asian Americans living as so-called foreigners [and] examines the history of bigotry against immigrants in the West for centuries. . . . An acid indictment of Asian stereotypes and a parable for outcasts feeling invisible in this fast-moving world."
—Kirkus Reviews
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