INTERIOR CHINATOWN COLOR:Book Fierstein's candid recollections provide a

Fierstein's candid recollections provide a rich window into downtown New York City life

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INTERIOR CHINATOWN COLOR:Book Fierstein's candid recollections provide aFrom 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. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet