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#298 - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Episode 29829th November 2024 • Books and Boba • Potluck Podcast Collective
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On this episode, we discuss our November 2024 book club pick,  Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, an award winning novel about a guy living in cop show version of Chinatown who dreams of becoming a "Kung Fu Guy" but is stuck playing generic Asian guy roles, a metaphor for not only how Hollywood treats its Asian actors, but for the model minority myth as well.

To help us discuss this book, we've invited our friends Ada Tseng and Brian Hu from the Saturday School Podcast who provide their perspectives as longtime Asian American pop culture journalists and scholars.

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The Books & Boba December 2024 Book Club Pick is Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo and translated by Jamie Chang

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