Stay Awake, Dan Chaon
Stay Awake, Dan Chaon
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Stay Awake
Stories

Author: Dan Chaon

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2012

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection - and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes unfathomable situations. A father's life is upended by his son's night terrors - and disturbing memories of the first wife and child he abandoned; a foster child receives a call from the past and begins to remember his birth mother; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of 'empty-nest syndrome.' They exist in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake.

About Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon is the author of several books, including Ill Will, a national bestseller, named one of the ten best books of 2017 by Publishers Weekly. Other works include the short story collection Stay Awake (2012), a finalist for the Story Prize; the national bestseller Await Your Reply; and Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in the Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthologies, and the O. Henry Collection. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction and the Shirley Jackson Award, and he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Cleveland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on June 23, 2019

Chaon is not a writer of weird fiction, yet many of his stories haunt you in the way good weird fiction does. When a talented writer--and Chaon is one--takes as his subject characters of limited awareness tried by extremity, and when he views those characters with both irony and empathy, something s......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on November 06, 2019

She sighs. “I know,” she says. “I realize that I should have told you. But—you know. All this stuff with your mother and so on. You seemed like you were in a very fragile state.” “Fraj-ile,” I say, pronouncing it the way that she does—as if it might be a popular tourist destination in the Pacific,......more

Goodreads review by Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl on December 23, 2024

I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. -Stan Laurel This amazing collection of stories provides readers with words and ideas to promote life reflection. I absolutely love Dan Chaon's magical ability :-) One of my favorite books ever! I have read Stay Awake nineteen times since......more

Goodreads review by Barry on March 15, 2012

This book is bleak, really, really bleak. Not for one paragraph will you read something that can possibly produce a feeling of hope in your heart. It could almost be enough to drive you to a life of loveless solitude, because if you believe in the universe Chaon creates here, something bad will inev......more

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