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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of racial identity, invisibility, and the internalization of limiting narratives
What this book is about
Written as a screenplay, Interior Chinatown follows Willis Wu, a background actor who aspires to the only roles available to Asian men in American pop culture. Yu's National Book Award winner is a metafictional examination of racial stereotyping in entertainment and American life, at once formally dazzling and emotionally earnest.
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Racial identity and stereotype themes
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