Description
Join the discussion by reading Interior Chinatown, a novel by Charles Yu. Willis Wu does not perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life; he is merely a 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 is a bit of a player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy–the most respected role anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it?
