Episode 241

#241 - The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang

On this episode, we discuss our September 2023 book club pick The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang, an Asian American family drama about a multi-generational restaurant family from the midwest and what happens to them and their town's Chinese American enclave when their tyrannical patriarch is found dead.

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