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. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Quick Book Summary (from the official blurb): ” Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown, recent winner of the National Book Award, is our next selection. In a continuation of our series of micro-reviews, assistant editor Brandon Williams brought together a group of ardent readers to give their quick-hit impressions of recent novels which have won major awards from the literary world.
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