Interior Chinatown
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 17, 2020
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780307948472
Description: "From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."--

Every day Willis Wu 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-- and he sees his life as a script. After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he has ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family, and what that means for him in today's America -- from publisher's description.
Notes: Source title: Interior Chinatown: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)