{"product_id":"book-dcg8","title":"Interior Chinatown","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the funniest books of the year … a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the infinitely inventive author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\u003c\/i\u003e comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWillis 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 \u003ci\u003eBlack and White, \u003c\/i\u003ea 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: \u003ci\u003eBe more.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, \u003ci\u003eInterior Chinatown \u003c\/i\u003eis Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fresh and beautiful … \u003ci\u003eInterior Chinatown\u003c\/i\u003e represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a \u003ci\u003esui generis\u003c\/i\u003e author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49328692166960,"sku":"BDdcg8","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dcg8-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776549237","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dcg8","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}