NMLP P-004586 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu · Pantheon Books · 2020

The US Pantheon hardcover (January 28, 2020) is the true first. The novel won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, announced November 18, 2020, which post-dates the first printing; later printings and the NBA-banded jacket state are not the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-004586 for "Interior Chinatown" by Charles Yu (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-004586, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).