What is the setting of the story?

Interior Chinatown is the primary setting for the novel. Willis's parents move here after experiencing rejection and discrimination everywhere else they have lived in America. In Interior Chinatown, they have only a few set ways of being. The place determines their identities, and thus their futures. Willis grows up here. As a child he often overhears his parents discussing their desire to escape the place, to create a story and life distinctly their own. Their failure to leave, however, convinces Willis that he can surpass them, can be the one to finally flee this entrapping realm. It is not until he realizes his mistake in pursuing the role of Kung Fu Guy, that Willis leaves Interior Chinatown for the first time. While this departure does not afford him immediate contentment, the journey does lead him over a proverbial threshold into a new future. He reunites with Older Brother, who bestows his wisdom on Willis, reminding him of the importance of leaving Interior Chinatown in his own time, for his own individual reasons.