From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science
Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture,
immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis
Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely
Generic Asian Man. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and
enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop
show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here, too . . . but he
dreams of being Kung Fu Guy--the highest aspiration he can imagine for a
Chinatown