Dan Chaon
Before the critically acclaimed novels ,Await Your Reply ,and, You Remind Me of Me, ,Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in ,Stay Awake,, Chaon returns to that form for the first time since his masterly ,Among the Missing,, a finalist for the National Book Award.,In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnectionâ€”and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes unfathomable situations.,A fatherâ€™s life is upended by his sonâ€™s night terrorsâ€”and disturbing memories of the first wife and child he abandoned; a foster child receives a call from the past and begins to remember his birth mother, whose actions were unthinkable; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of â€œempty-nest syndromeâ€; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notesâ€”on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that thereâ€™s something off, something sinister, in his late parentsâ€™ house.,Dan Chaonâ€™s stories feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. TheyÂ exist in a twilight realmâ€”in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake.
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Stay Awake