Ep. 312 Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu -- The Stacks Book Club (Elise Hu)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Flawless author Elise Hu returns to discuss our March book club pick Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. We talk about the satirical novel's themes of assimilation, the performance of imposed identity and the myth of the model minority. We also ask, who gets to be "American"?
Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our April book club pick will be.
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| 1:00.0 | Substac.com slash the Stacks 10% off unstacked. Okay that's enough. Let's listen to this episode. Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your |
| 1:21.1 | host Tracy Thomas and today is the Stax Book Club Day. We are |
| 1:25.0 | joined again by the wonderful author of the book Flawless Elise Hugh to discuss the New York Times |
| 1:31.5 | best-selling and national book award winning novel Interior |
| 1:35.2 | Chinatown by Charles Yu. It's a satirical novel written in the style of a screenplay that |
| 1:40.8 | follows Willis Wu. |
| 1:42.6 | He hasn't yet taken the main stage in his own life |
| 1:45.2 | when he is thrown into unexpected action and adventure. |
| 1:48.8 | It's a book that deals with racial stereotyping, |
| 1:51.2 | the performances we all do, and what it really means to assimilate. |
| 1:55.4 | Alyssa and I talk about all of that and more on today's episode, and yes, there are spoilers. Listen through to the end of today's episode to find out what our April Book Club Pick will be. |
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