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Await Your Reply

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

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 skilfully, 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 arrive in Nebraska, in the middle of nowhere, at a long-deserted motel next to a dried-up reservoir, to figure out the next move 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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Dan
Chaon

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Mr.. Chaon employs elegant prose to tell the story of three seemingly unrelated people whose shifting identities and hints of connection draws the reader in and propel the story. The deconstruction of identity is often present in fiction but is elucidated to great effect.

Chaon brings his characters together so seamlessly, that identity nearly ceases to exist as we realize they are all intricately linked.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books

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