Reception Īt the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the novel received a cumulative 'Rave' rating based on 12 reviews: 6 'Rave' reviews and 6 'Positive' reviews. In an interview with Timothy Tau for Hyphen, Yu remarked that his influences for the novel included Paul Beatty's Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sellout as well as the 'cyclical structure' of the film Groundhog Day. Yu also discussed the novel in an interview with Scott Simon on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday on January 25, 2020, and in an appearance on Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) Radio Hour with Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf on February 3, 2020. On January 27, 2020, Yu appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah to discuss the book, as well as the lack of on-screen representation for Asian Americans and the model minority stereotype of Asian Americans. The audiobook was narrated by actor Joel de la Fuente. Interior Chinatown was published in hardcover, e-book and audiobook format by Pantheon Books on January 28, 2020. The novel uses the narrative structure of the screenplay format to tell the tale of Willis Wu, the 'Generic Asian Man' who is stuck playing 'Background Oriental Male' and occasionally 'Delivery Guy' in the fictional police procedural Black and White but who longs to be 'Kung Fu Guy' on screens worldwide. The novel was also longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was shortlisted for the Prix Médicis étranger. It won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. It is his second novel and was published by Pantheon Books on January 28, 2020. Interior Chinatown is a 2020 novel by Charles Yu.

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