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Charles Yu, Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown (Paperback, 2020, Vintage) 4 stars

Interior Chinatown is a 2020 novel by Charles Yu. It is his second novel and …

Review of 'Interior Chinatown' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

(Unabridged audiobook)

I thoroughly enjoyed this interesting way of describing experiences of Asian Americans, both new immigrants and people of Asian descent born into American citizenship, and why/how they can find themselves labelled as Asian first and American second. The device of using a "central casting" lens was very entertaining and informative.
This tracked as 4.5 most of the way through, and only dropped to 4 at the end, when the author (or his editor?) felt obliged to explicitly spell out the "roman à clef".