Our Book of the Week was awarded the 2020 US National Book Award for Fiction for being immensely enjoyable, sharply written, and unflinching in its assessment of contemporary racism. Charles Yu's novel Interior Chinatown explores race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play, as Willis Wu strives to be something more than 'Generic Asian Man'—but what? Can Willis become the protagonist in his own life? A heartfelt, playful satire of Hollywood tropes and Asian American stereotypes. 
>>Read Stella's review. 
>>"Wills is a background Asian."
>>Yu reads from the novel. 
>>Satire, metafiction, and anti-racist critique. 
>>The multiple dimensions of Charles Yu. 
>>Taking on Hollywood's Asian tropes. 
>>Weird fiction as a political tool. 
>>On form and research.  
>>Not just black and white. 
>>Roles vs identities. 
>>Readers' questions. 
>>Explore the author's website. 
>>Conversations from the shadow lands. 
>>Therapy and storytelling. 
>>Order your copy now. 
>>Books by Charles Yu.