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Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
3.0

Clever in structure and premise and style. Highly effective at conveying stereotypes, micro aggressions, systemic racism, and exoticism. There’s a lot going on here and I can see that a lot of it works. The problem is the stylistic choices are exactly what I don’t like, so it was difficult to appreciate it beyond the themes and appreciation of its craft.

I can’t say I enjoyed reading it because in audio, the annoyances of the point of view and what I imagine to be written like a script? are only accentuated.

It is innovative and effective at what it’s doing though.