Interior Chinatown

A deeply affecting and hilarious novel about race, assimilation and popular culture. Willis Wu mostly gets to play Generic Asian Man. If he is lucky, sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son. Every day, Wu leaves the single room in Chinatown where he lives, and makes his way to the Golden Palace restaurant, the set of a cop show that is in perpetual production.
For now he is a bit player ; his dream that one day he will be offered the most coveted role someone who looks like him might aspire to : Kung Fu Guy. Inspired by his mother, who tells him to Be more, Wu confronts the insidious power of stereotypes in this moving family story of a man learning how to become a son, brother, father and partner in a world that treats him as barely human.