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Bookmark or Share- Interior Chinatown | Charles YuPlayful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes–Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet. PRAISE FOR INTERIOR CHINATOWN Named a Most Anticipated Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, The A.V. Club, Lit Hub, Woman’s Day, The Rumpus, Thrillist, and more.
- Charles Yu“Yu is a superhero of rendering human consciousness and emotion in the language of engineering and science.” — The New York Times Book Review “Yu’s workmanlike sentences are unexpectedly emotive, while also being almost always very funny.
- Sorry Please Thank You - Charles YuDrawing from both pop culture and science, Charles Yu is a brilliant observer of contemporary society, and in Sorry Please Thank You he fills his stories with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and piercing insight into the human condition. He has already garnered comparisons to such masters as Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, and in this new ...
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu“Science and metaphor get nice and cozy in Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. The novel joins the likes of Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story and Jillian Weise’s The Colony, fiction that borrows the tropes of sci-fi to tell high-tech self-actualization narratives.”
- About - Charles YuCHARLES YU is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Le Prix Médicis étranger, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
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