Chinese American culture, murder mystery, and Dostoyevsky in 'The Family Chao'
Podcast: NPR's Book of the DayPublished On: Wed Aug 10 2022
Description: Patriarch Leo Chao is murdered at his restaurant at the beginning of Lan Samantha Chang's new novel The Family Chao. Eventually family secrets and bitterness reveal themselves — much like a Dostoyevsky novel, from whom Chao took a lot of inspiration. But NPR's Scott Simon points out that even though this novel is about a murder, it's quite funny. Chang told Simon that she just enjoyed writing it so much that humor became a natural part of it. This is an encore episode from February 2022.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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