Chaon's story collection “Stay Awake“ is a solid collection of midwest despair. Going against the dominant mode of a lot of contemporary short stories containing a minor revelation, Chaon is comfortable in ambiguity. I really liked every story in this collection (with the exception of “Thinking Of You In Your Time Of Sorrow“ which I really disliked). Favorites are “I Wake Up,“ “To Psychic Underworld“ “The Farm, The Gold, The Lily-White Hand (CONT)
vivastory & “Patrick Lane, Flabbergasted“.) I actually reread the final story in the volume, “The Farm, The Gold etc“ because of all of the interesting connections that it makes with some of the other stories in the collection & the ending of it just knocked my socks off, 3mo
Ruthiella I‘ve only read two of his novels but I loved them both. For two years now I‘ve been trying to get to this one but keep getting distracted![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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Await Your ReplyBarbaraBB @Ruthiella That‘s my least favorite too. This one sounds good though! 3mo
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vivastory @Ruthiella Which novels have you read by him? I read “Ill Will“ & had issues with it but have thought about it several times despite reading it a few years ago 3mo
vivastory @BarbaraBB That's good to know, I'll def keep it in mind! I've heard good things about his new novel. 3mo
Ruthiella I LOVED Ill Will. It totally creeped me out. I‘ve also read Sleepwalk. Very entertaining. 3mo
TheLudicReader I have Ill Will on my tbr shelf. 3mo
BarbaraBB @Ruthiella I loved Ill Will too. And I need to check out that new one @vivastory 3mo
