“I can’t feel anything in my body right now,” a visibly stunned Mr. Yu, who was one of the National Book Foundation’s Five Under 35 most promising writers in America in 2007, worked as a lawyer before he quit to pursue writing. The novel, written in the form of a screenplay, features an aspiring actor named Willis Wu who confronts casual racism and the cruel hierarchies of the entertainment world in his quest to graduate from bit roles as the “Delivery Guy” or “Silent Henchman.” The judges praised the novel as “wonderfully inventive” and “by turns hilarious and flat out heartbreaking.” Charles Yu won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for his mind-bending satire, “ Interior Chinatown,” a sendup of Hollywood and Asian-American stereotypes.
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