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Dan Chaon

You Remind Me of Me (Ballantine) However close Dan Chaon's characters come, they can't quite connect. Disconnection rules: in families, in dreams. Even fortunate coincidences subside into spiritless accidents...

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By Michael Silverblatt • Oct 28, 2004 • 30m Listen

You Remind Me of Me

(Ballantine)

However close Dan Chaon's characters come, they can't quite connect. Disconnection rules: in families, in dreams. Even fortunate coincidences subside into spiritless accidents. Here, Chaon describes the peculiar hopelessness of his worldview, along with his puzzling belief in salvation.

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