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The Family Chao: A Novel

byLan Samantha Chang

The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant’s delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Using character, setting, dialogue, and narrative tension, The Family Chao moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing The Family Chao within fiction, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Readers come away with both the essential context and a sharper sense of how the novel continues to shape the present.

Publisher

Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780393868074