From the award-winning author of Among the Missing, Fitting Ends and You Remind Me of Me, comes an ambitious, gripping and beautifully written new novel about identity and identity theft – in the tradition of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Case Histories. Three strangers who are trying to find their way in the wake of loss become entwined in an identity-theft scheme, which has a resounding effect on them all. At once a gripping page-turner, a gorgeously written psychological study and a meditation on identity in the modern world, this is a literary novel with the haunting momentum of a thriller.
This psychologically charged novel tells the gripping story of three strangers who escape from their corners of Middle America and become involved in an identity-theft scheme that profoundly changes each of their lives. It is an atmospheric, character-driven story that explores the human need to reinvent oneself after a great loss. Narrator Kirby Heyborne's reading urges the book forward, and his tone is both soothing and consistent. He does a masterful job of bringing the book's characters together while maintaining each person's identity through subtle but definite changes in pitch. Heyborne reads too quickly at times, but then gathers himself and returns to a more measured pace, deftly emphasizing key phrases and plot twists. R.I.G. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Dan Chaon is the author of Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award and listed as one of the ten best books of the year by the American Library Association, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and Entertainment Weekly as well as being cited as a New York Times Notable Book. Chaon's fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and has won both Pushcart and O. Henry awards. Chaon teaches at Oberlin College.
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