5/21/2023 0 Comments Interior of chinatown![]() However, you never know when the television show starts and ends and real life begins. Sometimes the story is told while scenes are being shot and sometimes between scenes. The book partly takes place on a television set. ![]() ![]() Even the typewriter-like font resembles a script. “Interior Chinatown” are the same words used in a script to describe the location of a movie or tv show in Chinatown. The story is told in the format of a screenplay. What’s so gimmicky about Interior Chinatown? If he hadn’t structured the book in the way he did, it might have come off as preachy. Another reason to read it.Ĭharles Yu has a lot to say in this book about stereotypes of Chinese-Americans, Hollywood type-casting, and identity. Oh and by the way, his book won the National Book Award for best fiction of 2020. Luckily, Interior Chinatown ( AMAZON | BOOKSHOP.ORG) is the latter. Without their gimmicky features, they just wouldn’t be as damn good. But there are other times when they just work perfectly. ![]() Sometimes clever, gimmicky books come across as pretentious bores (George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo). Wow! What an incredibly clever, funny, and thought-provoking book! ![]()
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