![]() ![]() It’s “honest, funny, sad, and necessary…” ( Thrillist).Īs a bit player on the set of a police procedural, Black and White, Willis Wu dreams of one day playing Kung Fu Guy, “…the ceiling, the terminal, ultimate, exalted position for any Asian working in this world” (p. ![]() The novel “recalls the humorous and heartfelt short stories of George Saunders, the metafictional high jinks of Mark Leyner, and films like The Truman Show” ( New York Times). Consigned to bit roles in the background of a procedural cop show, he dreams of playing Kung Fu Guy, the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain-or so he has always been told. ![]() It tells the story of Willis Wu, who has only ever been cast as the Generic Asian Man. ![]() Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, the novel is "a moving exploration of race and assimilation" ( San Francisco Chronicle), "both rollicking entertainment and scathing commentary" ( Booklist), and "a parable for outcasts feeling invisible in this fast-moving world" ( Kirkus Reviews). Charles Yu’s critically acclaimed second novel Interior Chinatown is “satire at its best, a shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood…presented, perfectly, in the sharply hewed format of a screenplay” ( Vanity Fair). ![]()
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