For example, a location tag like “Interior Chinatown” refers to a scene set inside a building in Chinatown. The book uses a screenplay structure to tell Willis’s story, and a physical location identifies each scene. It covers about five years of his life, while extensive flashbacks to prior periods in the main characters’ lives add context. The protagonist, twenty-something Asian American actor Willis Wu, narrates the story. Interior Chinatown is set in the Chinatown district of present-day Los Angeles. In addition, he’s worked as a scriptwriter for numerous television shows, most notably Westworld on HBO. Yu’s work as an author includes several earlier books- Third Class Superhero (2006), How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010), and Sorry Please Thank You: Stories (2012)-as well as articles and essays in national magazines, such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
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