Saturday, September 20, 2025

the family chao - lan samantha cheng (2022)


dystopian and surreal but also really compellingly written.

plodding and ponderous and also page-turningly tense.

the characters are truly unlikeable: the victim wholly deserves his desserts three out of four siblings are hypomanic or personality disordered and the hangers-on are unprepossessing and unreal.

the overarching theme appears to be the old wuxia revenge worked out in a western clime. if i were an asian immigrant to the u.s. this book would totally depress me.

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