Await Your Reply

In Dan Chaon's brilliant novel, the lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways. Miles obsessively searches for his troubled twin brother, who has been missing for ten years— and learns that some version of the truth is always concealed. At a deserted motel in the middle of nowhere, Lucy, a high school graduate who has run off with her charismatic teacher, begins to feel quietly uneasy. And Ryan, just hit with some shocking news, decides to remake himself—through unconventional and precarious means, Await Your Replyis a literary master- work, an unforgettable novel in which pasts are invented and reinvented and the future is both seductively uncharted and perilously unmoored.