Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the collection Hunger ak woman yo Inheritance epi All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her short stories have appeared in Atlantik la, Ploughshares, ak The Best American Short Stories. Chang is the first Asian American and the first female director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In The Family Chao: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company), for 35 years the residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have enjoyed dining on the Fine Chao restaurant’s Americanized Chinese food, happy to shrug off unsavory whispers about the family owners: Big Leo Chao; his wife, Winnie; and their three sons, who have earned scholarships at good colleges. But when the brothers reunite in Haven, the Chao family’s secrets and simmering resentments erupt. Soon, patriarch Leo is found dead – presumed murdered – and his sons draw the gaze of the town. The ensuing trial brings to light potential motives for all three brothers, and as the spotlight on them tightens, they must reckon with the legacy of their father’s outsized appetites and their future survival.