Lan Samantha Chang
Autor(a) de The Family Chao
About the Author
Lan Samantha Chang was born, 1965, and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. She is the daughter of Chinese parents who survived the World War II Japanese occupation of China and later immigrated to the United States. Chang attended Yale University, first as a premedical student and then as an East Asian mostrar mais studies major. She went on to earn an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In her fiction, she focuses on the fragility of family relationships and the Chinese American immigrant experience. Chang's "Pipa's Story" was selected for Best American Short Stories 1994. Her books include All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010), Hunger (W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), Inheritance (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Lan Samantha Chang
Alphabet der Fremde 1 exemplar
Eve of the Spirit Festival 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults (1994) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today (2008) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1965
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
- Educação
- Yale University
Harvard University
University of Iowa - Ocupações
- novelist
short story writer
Professor of English - Organizações
- Iowa Writers' Workshop (Director)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2008)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 7
- Membros
- 1,117
- Popularidade
- #22,994
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 60
- ISBN
- 50
- Línguas
- 5
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
And Leo was such an extreme caricature that I was constantly taken out of the story and questioning: Could a father actually be like this? And other parts were just absurd. The Christmas dinner was too hard to believe. How could people eat and drink so much?
I almost put it down around page 80 until I got to the amusing anecdote about a town with two barbers, one of whom always has a terrible haircut. Which do you go to? A few things like that kept me reading. Well that and I had promised to read it for my book club.
I'd like to say the 2nd half was far more interesting than the first half but the characters were largely confused in their behavior and I became largely confused by them and just couldn’t care about them. I had so many questions about various scenes, people, and objects. I kept hoping the end would bring resolution and explanation but it just left other questions.
In total, it felt like the author had very little idea of how she wanted to write the narrative and just started experimenting, trying different techniques and then dropping them, moving on to others.
While I still enjoy stories without closure, in this case, I’m can’t say I enjoyed the book enough to recommend it to a friend. But I’ll stretch to give it 2 stars because I did like the contrast of the 3 brothers, their parents, the girlfriends, etc. It had potential but just didn’t do it well. And while I didn’t care much for the book, I think it could be turned into a movie that I would enjoy watching.… (mais)