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The San Diego Participant Observer Book of the Month is Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu A highly comedic and sharply satirical Asian American novel about race, Hollywood, immigration, assimilation, social expectations and a quest to find one's identity in a stereotyping world, Interior Chinatown is a 2020 National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller. "Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist 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 always he is 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’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. Or is it?—Amazon “Meticulously crafted. . . . Yu tells us about ourselves with his haunting depictions of the immigrant experience, familial relationships, and the abiding desire to break from the pressures of conformity and live an authentic life.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

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