This free virtual book club event will also be live streaming on the Los Angeles Times Facebook page, YouTube and Twitter. Yu’s Chinatown “exists in a mental space,” he says, “a kind of collective imagination for Asian Americans who grew up in my generation, feeling like you don’t exist fully inside of America.”Ĭharles Yu wins 2020 National Book Award. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration - Interior Chinatown is Charles Yus most moving. The story is set in a fictional Chinatown SRO where protagonist Willis Wu lives with his family and neighbors, all of them working at Golden Palace, a Chinese restaurant/television set on the ground floor. The National Book Award Foundation called it “a bright, bold, gut punch of a novel.” A novelist and television writer, Yu won a 2020 National Book Award for Interior Chinatown, a satirical story about the intersection of Hollywood and Asian stereotypes. The inspired author of How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010) delivers another inventive drama about an Asian actor who dreams of becoming a star. Times Book Club on May 27th for a conversation with Times film critic Justin Chang. In this episode of the How To Academy Podcast, he explores about the history of Chinese culture in the US, how his personal experiences as a first generation Taiwanese-American shaped the narrative, and what his own time in Hollywood has taught him about the art of storytelling.Charles Yu, the author of Interior Chinatown, joins the L.A. A New York Times bestseller and the winner of the 2020 National Book Award, the novel confirms Yu as one of America’s most exciting young novelists. For now he is a bit player: but he dreams that one day he will be offered the most coveted role someone who looks like him might aspire to: Kung Fu Guy.Ī coruscating satire of race, assimilation and Hollywood, Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown is both a groundbreaking experimental novel and a deeply personal and affecting family story heralded as one of the best books of 2020. If he is lucky, sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son.
Willis Wu mostly gets to play Generic Asian Man.
Enter the genre-bending metafictional world of Charles Yu, one of the most exciting young American novelists.
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