Hidden Gems: Lan Samantha Chang likes challenge of reimagining Dostoevsky

There are as many wacky ideas for novels as there are novelists. More, actually; many novelists move closer to the outer edges of imagination (theirs; ours) with each book. As proof, I submit "The Family Chao," the third novel by Lan Samantha Chang, in which she reimagines Fyodor Dostoevsky's epic "The Brothers Karamazov" as a contemporary Chinese American family drama.

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