Interior Chinatown

By the time he's done, you might understand why a seventy-seven-year-old guy from a tiny island in the Taiwan Strait who's been in a foreign country two-thirds of his life can nail a song, note perfect, about wanting to go home.

Interior Chinatown constantly teeters between heartwrenching and hilarious. It uses a unique format to parse out what it means to be pigeonholed, to dream only within the confines of the discrimination you face. How it feels to be ignored until or unless you are the victim of a hate crime.

The screenplay approach reminds me (though just a little bit) of the pieced together feel of an epistolary novel. It is a little more surreal and abstract, but is deeply real and intensely felt. It is an absolute trip, an entertaining whirlwind masterpiece. It is a new favorite of mine. I felt like I was reading at 2x speed, I could not get it into my brain fast enough.

I have not quite read anything like it, but it did call to mind [b:Fierce Femmes|32279708|Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars|Kai Cheng Thom|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1480517872l/32279708.SY75.jpg|52903547] and Scott Pilgrim at different points.