Interior Chinatown

I'm glad I stuck with this book. At first, I didn't understand that the TV show construct wasn't real and couldn't quite get into the story. Once I understood that “Interior Chinatown” is an allegory, I was able to get into its groove. We get a glimpse into Willis Wu and his family members' everyday feeling of being walled off and not treated as American, of feeling lumped into the titular monolithic Asian-ness.

This book is really inventive and has me interested in reading one of the author's influences, “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” by Erving Goffman.

I wish Goodreads allowed half stars because this is really 3.5 stars, not 3.