Interior Chinatown

“Something that’s really unique about this book is it’s written like a screenplay for a movie,” said English teacher Connie Colvin. “It’s about a guy who works for a television show as an extra but, someday, he wants to be a big star.”

With a 4/5 rating on Goodreads, “Interior Chinatown” by Charles Yu is a story following Willis Wu, an actor who lives in a single-room apartment in Chinatown.

“Arranged in acts and told in the second person in the form of a screenplay, ‘Interior Chinatown’ is bold, even groundbreaking, in its form,” said Anita Felicelli in her review on The San Francisco Chronicle. “It’s full of clever wordplay and in-jokes about the Chinese American experience.”

“I definitely recommend it,” said Colvin. “It’s a really fun and interesting book.”