Charles Yu fights anti-Asian hate in 'Interior Chinatown'
Print As Charles Yu wrote “Interior Chinatown,” he worried readers wouldn’t be interested in a satirical novel about how Hollywood and society trap Asian Americans in stereotypical roles. They almost never get to be the leading man. Instead, they get to be “Generic Asian Man Number Three / Delivery Guy.” “I wondered if I would run into people who would say, ‘What is the big deal — is it really such a big problem?’” recalls Yu, who joins the Los Angeles Times Book Club on May 27. “I thought I’d get skepticism. Does this story really need to be told?” The author’s se...
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