Books like Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
"Await Your Reply" follows Miles Cheshire, who spends a decade searching for his twin brother Hayden, presumed missing but secretly living under an assumed identity. Miles’s quest intersects with Lucy Lattimore, a recent high‑school graduate who flees Pompey, Ohio, for a mysterious motel in Nebraska and begins to feel uneasy.
Meanwhile, Ryan Schuyler, freshly graduated from Northwestern University, learns a shocking truth about his identity, abandons campus life, and sets out on a journey to reinvent himself. As Miles, Lucy, and Ryan’s lives collide, Chaon explores themes of identity, loss, and the fragile lines between past and future in a narrative that balances literary exploration with thrilling momentum.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller
Authors: Dan Chaon
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