Yu’s Chinatown “exists in a mental space,” he says, “a kind of collective imagination for Asian Americans who grew up in my generation, feeling like you don’t exist fully inside of America.”Ĭharles Yu wins 2020 National Book Award. The story is set in a fictional Chinatown SRO where protagonist Willis Wu lives with his family and neighbors, all of them working at Golden Palace, a Chinese restaurant/television set on the ground floor. The National Book Award Foundation called it “a bright, bold, gut punch of a novel.” A novelist and television writer, Yu won a 2020 National Book Award for Interior Chinatown, a satirical story about the intersection of Hollywood and Asian stereotypes.
Times Book Club on May 27th for a conversation with Times film critic Justin Chang. And whether or not that quantification, whether accurate or not, because of all of this you feel on some level that you maybe can’t even quite verbalize, out of shame or embarrassment, that the validity and volume of your complaints must be calibrated appropriately, must be in proportion to the aggregate suffering of your people.Charles Yu, the author of Interior Chinatown, joins the L.A. That the wrongs committed against your ancestors are incommensurate in magnitude with those committed against Black people in America.
That despite all of that, you somehow feel that your oppression, because it does not include the original American sin-of slavery-that it will never add up to something equivalent. Violation of civil liberties including internment. Alien land laws and restrictive covenants. Legislation that was in effect for almost a century. That while your community’s experience in the United States has included racism on the personal and the institutional levels, including but not limited to: immigration quotas, actual federal legislation expressly excluding people who look like you from entering the country. That because on the one hand you, for obvious reasons, have not been and can never be fully assimilated into mainstream, i.e., White America-Īnd on the other hand neither do you feel fully justified in claiming solidarity with other historically and currently oppressed groups. Wu, is it true that you have an internalized sense of inferiority?
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