Looking for “meta” cultural satire like Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu)
Focus on cultural identity or the immigrant experience.
Use a "weird" or experimental format (metafiction, satire, scripts, etc.).
Are funny but also have a bit of a "gut punch" reality check.
I haven’t read interior Chinatown but I think The Coin by Yasmin Zaher could fit the bill, maybe Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata without the immigrant angle
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Erasure by Percival Everett (the source novel for the film American Fiction) is somewhat in this vein. Definitely a satire, and it has a book-within-a-book.
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“Same Bed, Different Dreams” by Ed Park.
I haven’t read interior Chinatown but I think The Coin by Yasmin Zaher could fit the bill, maybe Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata without the immigrant angle
Erasure by Percival Everett (the source novel for the film American Fiction) is somewhat in this vein. Definitely a satire, and it has a book-within-a-book.