At least that is what he has been told, time and time again. 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. 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. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Gosh, I love this book! Recommended By Jun L., įrom the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
It's an amazing, lighthearted step in the right direction. Please learn to acknowledge the subtle racism that, to us, feels blatant. Please try to understand where we're coming from. There are plenty more great Asian American narratives out there, but, for now, this one takes the cake for me in terms of showcasing the ignorance that is deeply settled in our society. Please read this.
We're all Generic Asian Person living in someone else's world. Charles Yu lets it all out in his displays of common racism and stereotypes that seem to define us as Asian Americans. It's like rehearsing an imaginary argument in the shower.
It's like taking a moment to go off and scream where nobody can hear you. Subtlety is awesome, but sometimes you're fed up and need the catharsis of exposing and berating all of your frustrations. As an Asian American, it's nice to have something that, to me, feels so straightforward and unapologetically blunt about our circumstances. I've been in dire need of a book like Interior Chinatown for quite some time.
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