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Chinese American culture, murder mystery, and Dostoyevsky in 'The Family Chao'
Chinese American culture, murder mystery, and Dostoyevsky in 'The Family Chao'
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2022
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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 a natural part of it. This is an encore episode from February 2022.
Released:
Aug 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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