INTERIOR China -town is the second novel of Charles Yu, and it won the prestigious National Book Award in the US at an appropriate time. Yu is the award-winning author of three books, and has written for HBO and other platforms. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and his work on HBO's Westworld received a nomination from the Writers Guild of America.

This meta-fictive novel came out just when Asians were bearing the brunt not just of racist slurs but actual, physical attacks occasioned by the color of their skin.