Interior Chinatown Book Reviews

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Stunningly funny. Incredibly funny and mesmerizing.

Grasping for Identity. Charles Yu has presents us a novel that at its core, is an effort to identify, challenge, and rewrite stereotypes. It’s told using a unique and refreshing voice that captures the immigrant experience. Even more so, it tells the minority experience as a whole. A life of constantly grasping for an identity that is not your own just so you can be seen. The author goes a layer deeper and adds in the complex dynamics between generations. Relationships made even more fluid by the compounding pressures of western cultural mores. The people we celebrate are diminished before our eyes when we step outside. Everything you work for and achieve has an asterisk next to it to signify achievements by “the other.” Through our narrator we also get a cynical behind the scenes commentary on the mundane aspects of the entertainment industry. Particularly how the industry exasperates stereotypes. Overall a short and swift story that is rich in details and texture. Yu puts on a writer’s clinic in how careful word selection and pacing paints a complete picture by deploying the reader’s imagination.

Unusual Little Gem. This book has such an unusual construction! It was very entertaining with plenty of humor thrown in to offset the heartbreak of the immigrants stories. The information about anti-miscegenation laws in the US was really an eye-opener. After reading this book, I saw an ad for Disney’s Mulan II and cringed!

Eye opening, engaging take on dangers of stereotypes and racism. It starts slowly, building the world and developing the characters. But once you’re familiar with the structure and willing to dwell within the limited world, you find yourself identifying with and rooting for the main character. At the halfway point, I couldn’t put the book down and wanted to see how it ended. If you’re looking for a book to take with you on a plane or vacation, this is a good choice. The story is relatable no matter what your ethnicity. The straightforward prose and in your face stereotypes, allows one to see how the roles/stereotypes they’ve voluntarily adopted or been forced in affect worldview and shape behavior.

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. Such a wonderfully political and well-written novel. A must read, a treasure.

Wow.. The prose kept me hooked. An incredibly innovative approach to analyzing culture and media.

Simply Amazing. Thanks for this moving, beautifully written and clever book. Highly relevant. A must read.

Creative, hilarious at times but also sad and poignant. Unlike any other book I’ve ever read. The screenplay format was witty and insightful, thoroughly enjoyable with important things to say about immigration, accepted ‘norms’, and being other/an outsider

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