AAPI Heritage Month Trivia Night & Mixer

To celebrate AAPI Heritage Month, we're hosting our first ever trivia night at Sonbul in Bed-Stuy (365 Throop Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221)!

In addition to the trivia, each attendee will receive a copy of Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, a novel (also recently adapted into a TV show!) with darkly comic commentary on the lack of Asian visibility in pop culture. The book is also a celebration of Chinatowns, their critical place in Asian American history, and their contributions to American culture overall. Interior Chinatown covers so many themes that we at YPB try to address with our work, not just in May but all year long. We want to place the book into as many hands as possible, so we hope you enjoy!

About this Event:

• Each ticket will include a copy of Interior Chinatown and a beverage (alcoholic and NA options available!) from our host venue. Additional beverages and food will be available for purchase at the event.

• We'll host AAPI-themed trivia—you can come with a team or we can help you join one at the event!

• We'll bring additional books to shop at the event.

• Doors open at 7:30pm, trivia will begin at 8pm

• Community Guidelines and Rules

  • You commit to treating everyone with respect and care

  • Stay home if you feel sick!

If you would like to attend but the ticket cost is prohibitive, please reach out to contact@yellowperilbooks.com and we will try to find a solution! We never want lack of funds to be a barrier to entry.

About Interior Chinatown

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “A shattering and darkly comic send-up of racial stereotyping in Hollywood” (Vanity Fair) and 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 the protagonist 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 every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it?

After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

About the Author and Moderator

Charles Yu is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown (the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction), and the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (a New York Times Notable Book and a Time magazine best book of the year). He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications . Together with TaiwaneseAmerican.org, he established the Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Writing Prizes, in honor of his parents.

Refunds and Exchanges

Ticket purchases cannot be refunded. Because we don't have our own storefront, we host our events in partnership with other local small businesses, meaning we share all operational costs as well as revenue with them based on anticipated attendance. The only way for our partner businesses to properly prepare supplies, space, and food/drinks for these events is to have a clear idea of how many attendees to expect, meaning that any last-minute changes make it that much harder to host.

Exchanges for future events are allowed if you reach out a minimum of 10 days before the start of the original event you signed up for. Our events are usually sold out and we want to make sure that we'd have enough time to fill any open spots with people who are hoping to join. Please reach out to contact@yellowperilbooks.com if you have any issues with your ticket.