Chang's prose moves with the unfussy ease of a shark through water - for the longest time you are just enjoying your swim, soaking up the story. Only midway through the book does it occur to you that a master hunter is at work: a writer cutting through the darker depths of what it means to be treated as an outsider in America - The Guardian

Scathing and hilarious, the rollicking tale considers the thorny themes of assimilation, identity, pride, filial piety, transracial adoption, and interracial relationships... you'll never look at Chinese restaurant families the same - Vogue

[An] entertaining portrait of a "clusterf**k" Chinese-American family... a memorable expose of the dark undercurrents of small-town morality - The Independent

An insightful comedy of the American immigrant experience, and of a small town's inner workings - John Irving

A very smart novel about family, immigration, delicious food, and brutal Midwestern winters AND a modern retelling of The Brothers Karamazov (!) -- Curtis Sittenfeld (via Twitter)

A gorgeous and gripping literary mystery... A masterpiece -- Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of 'Girl in Translation'

This is one of the finest and most ambitious novels about America I've read -- Yiyun Li, author of 'Must I Go'

[Chang] lives and writes to push the boundaries of her craft and her world... Her new novel is a genre bender: a murder story whose prose sings and snickers and soars - Washington Post

The Family Chao is a stirring, intimate drama about love, hate, money, and murder in an Asian American family -- Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay

Skewer[s] - with tart humour - cultural myths about assimilation and model migrant families - The Daily Mail

[Lan Samantha Chang] is a perceptive, witty writer who revels in the mess of this dysfunctional family - The Irish Times (Book of the Day)

[Chang] turns the tired truism about every town having a Chinese restaurant on its head... Beautifully executed - Los Angeles Times

With nuance and slyness, wit and empathy, Chang turns the desires and deceits of one unhappy family into a moving and compelling saga of that classic American illness: ambition -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of 'The Sympathizer'

The Family Chao is the ultimate family saga... I absolutely loved it. It's a masterclass -- Luan Goldie, Women’s Prize-longlisted author of 'Homecoming'

An addictive read - Stylist

A marvellous and wonderfully entertaining novel -- Margot Livesey, New York Times bestselling author of 'The Boy in The Field'

At once a brilliant reimagining of Dostoevsky and a wholly original and gripping story about the passions, rivalries and searing pressures that roil a singular immigrant family -- Jess Walter, author of 'The Cold Millions'

An indictment of the asphyxiating myth of the model minority, The Family Chao, an intoxicatingly bold and capacious wonder, is a compelling murder mystery, a love story, a legal drama, a meditation on internalized racism, an examination of fraternal bonds and filial burdens, and a wrenching vivisection of race... a must-read -- T. Geronimo Johnson, author of 'Hold It Till It Hurts'

The Family Chao is riveting, delicious, full of love and danger, an intricate look at the so-called American Dream and one small-town American family trying and failing to save itself. . . an up-to-the-minute look at what it means to be accused and visible in America, and also an old-fashioned page-turner -- Elizabeth McCracken, author of 'The Giant’s House'

With its deft and intelligent humour, wry observations and and a real knack for capturing the detritus of family life, The Family Chao is also a masterful suspense novel that packs a punch in the heart and gut. What more could one want from a book? -- Alice Pung, author of Unpolished Gem and Her Father's Daughter

Beautifully wrought and heavily satirical, Chang's darkly witty novel takes a scalpel to smalltown gossip and the immigrant experience in this delicious dissection of the hollow truths of the American Dream -- Waterstones

..an ingenious and cunning reboot of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. The harrowing and humorous family drama is wrapped in a murder mystery...timely, trenchant, and thoroughly entertaining - Publishers Weekly, starred review

Lan Samantha Chang is a masterful writer, and this novel has it all... Funny, heartbreaking, and layered with emotion, Chang's latest book is definitely one to keep in mind for book club next year - Book Riot

A Chinese American family reckons with its patriarch's murder in this modern-day reboot of The Brothers Karamazov... A disruptive, sardonic take on the assimilation story -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

...suspenseful... [a] literary mystery that is also a compelling immigrant family saga - Oprah Daily

..perfect for those who wish SUCCESSION was about a murder - CrimeReads

Reminiscent of the work of the wonderful Celeste Ng, The Family Chao is a sprawling, powerful novel of love, hatred, loss and belonging - The Irish Times

Bold, wise, compassionate, and cut through with a bone dry humour, THE FAMILY CHAO is the irresistible story of an immigrant family in America that is also a story about families everywhere. I loved it -- Clare Clark

Funny, thought-provoking and paced like a thriller, The Family Chao radically redefines the immigrant novel while balancing entertainment and delight - BookPage

A hilarious mystery that's also a searing take on assimilation and the American dream - People Magazine

The Family Chao is a riveting character-driven novel that delves beautifully into human psychology; Dostoevsky himself would surely approve - NPR

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the award-winning books Hunger and Inheritance, and the novel All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her work has been translated into nine languages and has been chosen twice for The Best American Short Stories. A recent Berlin Prize winner, she has received creative writing fellowships from Stanford University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Samantha lives in Iowa City, where she is director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.