Richland Library Cooper
Shelf Indulgence Book Group
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Join us Tuesday, June 25, at 6:30p.m. for a discussion of Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu.
For more information or to get a copy of the book, please contact Elizabeth Barrett at (803) 787-3462.
Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as the protagonist in how 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?
After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched in a wider world than he's ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration - Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.