The Family Chao
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction | 2023 | Winner |
About This Book
The Chao family has run a Chinese restaurant in a Wisconsin town for decades, but when patriarch Leo Chao is found dead, his three sons—each representing a different response to the immigrant experience—become suspects. Loosely inspired by The Brothers Karamazov, this darkly comic family drama explores assimilation, ambition, inherited trauma, and the ways immigrant families both devour and sustain each other. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction.
About the Author
Lan Samantha Chang is an American author of Chinese descent. Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1965, to immigrant parents from Shanghai, she studied at Yale University and Harvard and received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently the director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, one of the most prestigious positions in American literary education. Read more →
