In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced ...

Dan Chaon is the author of Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and You Remind Me of Me, which was named one of the best books of ...

In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced ...

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Your future shifts and warps ...

Feb 3, 2012 · A man loses a finger in a fall from a ladder. Someone glimpses through a window a figure not of this world. A parent commits suicide. Children ...

Dan Chaon's stories feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm—in a place by the window late at night when ...

In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced ...

Dan Chaon's new story collection, "Stay Awake," offers readers a crisp, insightful world of characters facing difficult decisions. As these characters deal with ...

Feb 6, 2012 · Dan Chaon writes about coping with tragedy in his new collection of short stories, Stay Awake. His crime stories are quiet, eerie, sad, ...

Feb 15, 2012 · Writer Dan Chaon's latest collection of short fiction, "Stay Awake," has been called a "peek into loss and darkness.".