Author explores Asian American stereotypes in pop culture with his audacious new book.
, a restaurant employee named Willis Wu plays “Generic Asian Man Number Three/Delivery Guy” on a police procedural called. The twist, or sad truth, is that this reflects reality for Wu: Essentially all of his life consists of appearances on TV shows, to the extent that he is forced to portray the same clichéd minor character in fictional tales as he is in “real-life.
Yu specializes in metatextual and thematically complex material. The lead character of his first novel, 2010’s, is a time-machine repairman named Charles Yu, who attempts to escape the consequences of shooting a future version of himself.
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