Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown is a novel about race, pop culture and escaping the stereotypical roles that were are pushed into, from the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Interior Chinatown tells the story of Willis Wu who always feels like he plays a background role in his own life, his mother, however, is the one person who believes he can step out of the box and she says to him ‘be more’.