YOU REMIND ME OF ME: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 01240004R00338

English Summary/英文概要： With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends, award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes the Chicago Tribune, who can “convincingly squeeze whole lives into a mere twenty pages or so.” Now Chaon marshals his notable talents in his much-anticipated debut novel.

You Remind Me of Me begins with a series of separate incidents: In 1977, a little boy is savagely attacked by his mother’s pet Doberman; in 1997 another little boy disappears from his grandmother’s backyard on a sunny summer morning; in 1966, a pregnant teenager admits herself to a maternity home, with the intention of giving her child up for adoption; in 1991, a young man drifts toward a career as a drug dealer, even as he hopes for something better. With penetrating insight and a deep devotion to his characters, Dan Chaon explores the secret connections that irrevocably link them. In the process he examines questions of identity, fate, and circumstance: Why do we become the people that we become? How do we end up stuck in lives that we never wanted? And can we change the course of what seems inevitable?

In language that is both unflinching and exquisite, Chaon moves deftly between the past and the present in the small-town prairie Midwest and shows us the extraordinary lives of “ordinary” people.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事的开头是一系列不相干的事件：1974年，一个小男孩受到他母亲宠物的攻击；1997年一个阳光灿烂的早上，另一个小男孩在他祖母的后院消失；1966年，一个女孩来到产院，要求产院收养她将要生下的孩子；1991年，一个年轻男子当了药品中介人，尽管他并不满意这个职业。随着对这些事件的秘密联系的探索，作者也同时探索了人的身份，命运和环境等问题。

Awards/获奖情况：“You Remind Me of Me is one of the strangest, most beautiful, most compelling books I’ve read in a long time. Unnerving and real, intricately plotted, wonderfully written, it’s a Chinese box of a novel, full of hidden pleasures and surprises.”---ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN, author of The Giant’s House and Niagara Falls All Over Again

“[A] piercingly poignant tale of fate, chance, and search for redemption.”---Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“One of Dan Chaon’s many gifts is his ability to probe deeply and delicately into sorrow. This gift serves him beautifully in You Remind Me of Me, a novel about adoption, about the quiet sadness that lies at the bottom of all his characters’ troubles.”---JANE HAMILTON, author of A Map of the World

“Dan Chaon’s beautiful, effortless prose commands the reader from sentence one, steering us from prickling unease to wrenching pathos, tunneling inside his characters’ minds and worlds with such authority that everything else seems to disappear. It’s almost frightening to be in the hands of so gifted a writer.”---JENNIFER EGAN, author of Look at Me and The Invisible Circus

“Beautiful, painful, and sure footed, You Remind Me of Me tracks the delicate connections between a handful of lost and poignant lives, in the process giving them the radiance of a stained-glass window. What a writer. Dan Chaon is going to have a breathtaking literary career.”---PETER STRAUB, author of lost boy lost girl

“Dan Chaon’s novel, You Remind Me of Me, is nothing short of brilliant. The novel is haunting me, and I can’t stop thinking about it—both as a reader and as a deeply admiring writer. I wish I had a better adjective than superb.”---CAROLINE LEAVITT, author of Girls in Trouble

About the Author/作者介绍： Dan Chaon’s first novel, You Remind Me of Me, was named one of the best books of 2004 by the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. He is also the author of two well-recieved short story collections: Fitting Ends and Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Best American Short Stories of 1996 and 2003, The Pushcart Prize in 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007, and The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2001. His fiction has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction in 2002 and 2007, and he was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The author lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and teaches at Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing.

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