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“It’s true on a technicality. I’m being held unlawfully. I didn’t commit the crime for which I’ve been convicted. But if you look at it another way, I deserve to be here. I did a lot of other shitty things, for which I wasn’t punished.”

The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang

February 10, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I wish I would have known this was a retelling of The Brothers Karamazov before I purchased this book and got all excited about it. I probably never would have picked it up. There is a reason that I have never read any of Dostoyevsky’s stuff (or Tolstoy for that matter). The Family Chao follows the titular family, owners of a Chinese restaurant in a small town in America. The parents of the family are immigrants from China, and there are three sons. When the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Chinese American, family drama, Lan Samantha Chang, lit-fic, literary fiction, literary mystery, mystery, narfna, retellings, The Brothers Karamazov, The Family Chao

narfna's CBR15 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Chinese American, family drama, Lan Samantha Chang, lit-fic, literary fiction, literary mystery, mystery, narfna, retellings, The Brothers Karamazov, The Family Chao ·
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