"This is it. The root of it all. The real history of Asian people in America. Two hundred years of being perpetual foreigners.”

Interior Chinatown is a unique commentary on what it’s like to be Asian in America, written mostly as a screenplay. The format is brilliant, honestly, bringing in characters such as “Generic Asian Man” “Ethnically Ambiguous Girl,” and “Kung Fu Guy,” while also focusing on Chinese American family dynamics and overall racial status in America. While this book is short, entertaining, and funny, it is also packed with hard truths that help unpack racial dynamics at play for Asians in our country. I highly recommend this read!

“Unofficially, we understood. There was a ceiling. Always had been, always would be. Even for him. Even for our hero, there were limits to the dream of assimilation, to how far any of you could make your way into the world of Black and White.”