Book Review: Interior Chinatown by Charles Wu
on Sheila Ash (India), Unknown, 34 days ago
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Interior ChinatownbyCharles YuMy rating:3 of 5 stars  "All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages....."                        from As You Like It by William ShakespeareI think this completely sums up this book. ReadingCharles Yuhighly experimental fiction mean you step into a world where everyone
is an actor and the world itself is the production set. Roles are based
on race, age and gender. Everyone is limited Willis Wu dreams of
eventually progressing from Generic Asian Guy to Kung Fu Guy. Written as
a script, laid out as such on the page this is a novel novel. This is a
satirical sociopolitical commentary on the effects of the various
political Acts restricting Asians in America through the 1800 to recent
times. Well worth a read, it won the2020 National Book Award for Fictionashramblings