An unforgettable story of an unlikely friendship and the scars of a broken past. The first novel from the million copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Willis Wu is Generic Asian man, a bit player in a cop show in perpetual production. He dreams of being Kung Fu Guy-the best anyone who looks like him can attain. That's what he has been told, time and time again, except by his mother...
"[Francis] is just so good at the transcription and transformation of everyday ordinary life, all seen from sideways on, so that everything becomes so strange and so funny."-Tessa Hadley