The Family Chao: A Novel
A reimagining of The Brothers Karamazov, The Family Chao successfully combines a propulsive literary mystery, a generational family drama, and the American immigrant story into one can't-put-it-down novel.
Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
A Vogue and NPR Best Book of the Year • Featured on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List (2022)
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, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about th...






















