![]() Willis’s narration slides between describing scripted scenes that he’s filming for a TV show and his inner musings about what it means to be an Asian person in the US. Although the story is from Willis’s point of view, he refers to himself using a second-person voice in keeping with the script format. ![]() ![]() Similar tags in the dialog identify the speaker’s name or role in a scene. For example, a location tag like “Interior Chinatown” refers to a scene set inside a building in Chinatown. The book uses a screenplay structure to tell Willis’s story, and a physical location identifies each scene. It covers about five years of his life, while extensive flashbacks to prior periods in the main characters’ lives add context. The protagonist, twenty-something Asian American actor Willis Wu, narrates the story. Interior Chinatown is set in the Chinatown district of present-day Los Angeles. ![]() In addition, he’s worked as a scriptwriter for numerous television shows, most notably Westworld on HBO. Yu’s work as an author includes several earlier books- Third Class Superhero (2006), How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010), and Sorry Please Thank You: Stories (2012)-as well as articles and essays in national magazines, such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker. ![]()
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