{"product_id":"books-stay-awake-by-dan-chaon","title":"Stay Awake","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn these \"superbly disquieting\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) stories, lost, fragile, and searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland-from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmong the Missing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Powerful and disturbing.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Eerily beautiful.\"-\u003ci\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\" Chaon is a literary force.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIncludes an exclusive conversation between Dan Chaon and Emma Straub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In twelve chilling stories, Dan Chaon introduces us to characters who have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection-and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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, whose actions were unthinkable; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of \"empty-nest syndrome\"; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notes-on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that there's something off, something sinister, in his late parents' house.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The stories in \u003ci\u003eStay Awake\u003c\/i\u003e feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm-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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669180997905,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780345530387.jpg?v=1781506655","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-stay-awake-by-dan-chaon","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}