E-audiobook
Interior Chinatown : a novel / Charles Yu.
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play--by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. 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. Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593148716
- ISBN: 0593148711
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (04 hr., 23 min., 53 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York, NY] : Random House Audio, 2020.
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Joel de la Fuente. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed January 31, 2020). |
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| Subject: | Asian Americans > Fiction. Asian Americans in popular culture > Fiction. Asian Americans. Asian Americans in popular culture. Fiction. Literature. |
| Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. Fiction. Audiobooks. |
