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The family Chao : a novel
- Title
- The family Chao : a novel / Lan Samantha Chang.
- Author
- Chang, Lan Samantha
- Publication
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-638 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 301 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "An acclaimed storyteller returns with "a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery" that explores "family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream" (Jean Kwok). The residents of Haven, Wisconsin have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, happy to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. But when brash, charismatic, and tyrannical patriarch Leo Chao is found dead--presumed murdered--his sons find they've drawn the exacting gaze of the entire town. The ensuing trial brings to light potential motives for all three brothers: Dagou, the restaurant's reckless head chef; Ming, financially successful but personally tortured; and the youngest, gentle but lost college student James. Brimming with heartbreak, comedy, and suspense, The Family Chao offers a kaleidoscopic, highly entertaining portrait of a Chinese American family grappling with the dark undercurrents of a seemingly pleasant small town. "At once a brilliant reimagining of Dostoevsky and a wholly original and gripping story about the passions, rivalries, and searing pressures that roil a singular immigrant family."--Jess Walter, author of The Cold Millions"--
- Subject
- Chinese American families > Fiction
- Family-owned business enterprises > Fiction
- Chinese restaurants > Fiction
- Brothers > Fiction
- Murder > Investigation > Fiction
- Family secrets > Fiction
- Brothers
- Chinese American families
- Chinese restaurants
- Family-owned business enterprises
- Family secrets
- Murder > Investigation
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-638
- ISBN
- 9780393868074
- 0393868079
- LCCN
- 2021037009
- OCLC
- 1252850118
- Author
- Chang, Lan Samantha, author.
- Title
- The family Chao : a novel / Lan Samantha Chang.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-638