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What does 'The Family Chao' have in common with Dostoyevsky? Murder and more.
What does 'The Family Chao' have in common with Dostoyevsky? Murder and more.
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Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Jun 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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 part of it.
Released:
Jun 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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