{"product_id":"interior-chinatown-pb","title":"Interior Chinatown: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Honest, funny, sad, and necessary satire.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e --Thrillist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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-- Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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. Yu Writing Prizes, in honor of his parents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Yu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711185899805,"sku":"9780307948472","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780307948472.jpg?v=1706373214","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/interior-chinatown-pb","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}