Interior Chinatown (by Charles Yu)

This is an innovative and metatextual novel in which our protagonist, Willis Wu, lives in Chinatown, where a cop show named Black and White (starring two detectives, one Black and one white) is continually running. Wu plays roles ranging from GENERIC ASIAN MAN to DEAD ASIAN MAN to (the pinnacle of his aspiration) KUNG FU GUY.  This conceit allows the author to examine the ways in which Americans of Asian descent have been pigeonholed in America, and other complexities of navigating the culture as a Chinese-American.

I loved this. It's a disarmingly fast read (much of it in script format) but has a lot of depth and wit to it. As you may guess, it's also wildly original.  I heard about it via the Tournament of Books, but it also won the 2020 National Book Award.