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2020

Title:	Interior Chinatown / Charles Yu.
Author:	Yu, Charles, 1976- author.
Format:	Book
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
Description:	270 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:	Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even 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 he is always 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. At least that’s what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more.
Subjects:	Asian Americans -- Fiction. Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction. Racism -- Fiction. Actors -- Fiction. Television -- Production and direction -- Fiction. Families -- Fiction.
Genre:	Domestic fiction.
Notes:	FCDL copy purchased with a donation made in memory of Larry McNeely.
ISBN:	9780307907196
System Availability:	31
Current Holds:	2
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CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown (the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction), and the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (a New York Times Notable Book and a Time magazine 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, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications. Together with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, he established the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Writing Prizes, in honor of his parents. - (Random House, Inc.)

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