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"Fresh and beautiful. . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition." --The New York Times Book Review

"[A] sharply observed, darkly humorous evocation of the Asian American experience."
--Entertainment Weekly

"Satire at its best, a shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood . . . presented, perfectly, in the sharply hewed format of a screenplay. . . . Peeling back caricatures to paint vivid individual portraits, Yu eviscerates generalizations with the devastatingly specific."
--Vanity Fair

"Bold, even groundbreaking. . . . Interior Chinatown solders together mordant wit and melancholic whimsy to produce a moving exploration of race and assimilation."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"Interior Chinatown . . . recalls the humorous and heartfelt short stories of George Saunders, the metafictional high jinks of Mark Leyner, and films like The Truman Show."
--The New York Times

"An inventive satire about racial stereotyping."
--Maureen Corrigan, NPR

"Meticulously crafted. . . . Yu tells us about ourselves with his haunting depictions of the immigrant experience, familial relationships, and the abiding desire to break from the pressures of conformity and live an authentic life."
--Los Angeles Review of Books

"Part novel, part screenplay, part screed, and part sociology, this National Book Award winner is always funny and pretty savage."
--Vulture

"Yu has a devilish good time poking fun at the racially blinkered ways of Hollywood. . . . [Interior Chinatown is] rollicking fun, and its reclamation of Asian American history, with all its attendant sorrows and hopes, holds out the possibility of a new, true story ahead."
--New York Journal of Books

"Honest, funny, sad, and necessary satire."
--Thrillist

"Like nothing you've read before--a moving and transportive work abounding with risks that pay off."
--InsideHook

"Passionate and clever. . . . A caustic, absurd, and endearing exploration of Asian American stereotypes, police procedurals, and the immigrant experience."
--Shelf Awareness

"A stunning novel about identity, race, societal expectations, and crippling anxiety told with humor and affection and a deep understanding of human nature."
--The Washington Independent Review of Books

"Conflates history, sociology, and ethnography with the timeless evils of racism, sexism, and elitism in a multigenerational epic that's both rollicking entertainment and scathing commentary."
--Booklist (starred review)