On January 27, 2020, Yu appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah to discuss the book, as well as the lack of on-screen representation for Asian Americans and the model minority stereotype of Asian Americans. The audiobook was narrated by actor Joel de la Fuente. Interior Chinatown was published in hardcover, e-book and audiobook format by Pantheon Books on January 28, 2020. The novel uses the narrative structure of the screenplay format to tell the tale of Willis Wu, the "Generic Asian Man" who is stuck playing "Background Oriental Male" and occasionally "Delivery Guy" in the fictional police procedural Black and White but who longs to be "Kung Fu Guy" on screens worldwide. The novel was also longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was shortlisted for the Prix Médicis étranger. It won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. It is his second novel and was published by Pantheon Books on January 28, 2020. Interior Chinatown is a 2020 novel by Charles Yu.
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