Await Your Reply: A Novel
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inside the jacket:
Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless can't stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed.
A few days after graduating from high school. Lucy Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrvie in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next more on their path to a new life. But soon Lucy begins to feel quietly uneasy.
"My whole life is a lie," thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himself - through unconventional and precarious means.
"Await Your Reply" is a literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.
Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless can't stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to place, managing along the way to hold down various jobs and seem, to the people he meets, entirely normal. But some version of the truth is always concealed.
A few days after graduating from high school. Lucy Lattimore sneaks away from the small town of Pompey, Ohio, with her charismatic former history teacher. They arrvie in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next more on their path to a new life. But soon Lucy begins to feel quietly uneasy.
"My whole life is a lie," thinks Ryan Schuyler, who has recently learned some shocking news. In response, he walks off the Northwestern University campus, hops on a bus, and breaks loose from his existence, which suddenly seems abstract and tenuous. Presumed dead, Ryan decides to remake himself - through unconventional and precarious means.
"Await Your Reply" is a literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.
Dan Chaon is a masterful story teller.
As the book opens, we are introduced to three apparently random storylines. First there is Ryan, who is being rushed to the hospital by his father with his hand separated from his body, resting in a cooler of ice. Next we meet Lucy, a recent high school graduate, who is running away with her high school teacher to Nebraska where they plan to start their lives anew. Finally we meet Miles on a road-trip to Canada in search of his long-lost twin.
As each of their stories progress, there are subtleties that suggest there might be a common thread between the three stories. By the time all the pieces start to fall into place and the common theme is obvious, Dan Chaon gives one final twist to the story. (I'd love to give more details but I don't want to ruin the story for future readers)
This was my first Dan Chaon book and I will be looking for more books by this author.
As the book opens, we are introduced to three apparently random storylines. First there is Ryan, who is being rushed to the hospital by his father with his hand separated from his body, resting in a cooler of ice. Next we meet Lucy, a recent high school graduate, who is running away with her high school teacher to Nebraska where they plan to start their lives anew. Finally we meet Miles on a road-trip to Canada in search of his long-lost twin.
As each of their stories progress, there are subtleties that suggest there might be a common thread between the three stories. By the time all the pieces start to fall into place and the common theme is obvious, Dan Chaon gives one final twist to the story. (I'd love to give more details but I don't want to ruin the story for future readers)
This was my first Dan Chaon book and I will be looking for more books by this author.
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Arrived in the mail yesterday. Thanks, Aberpeter
