You Remind Me of Me [Paperback] by Chaon, Dan
by Dan Chaon
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Jonah Doyle is six years old. He lives with his mother, his grandfather and their dog Elizabeth in a yellow house in South Dakota. It is a house full of tensions. And then one sunny day in early spring, a terrible accident occurs that will change the course of Jonah's life. That accident sets in motion a course of events that unfolds over the course of this spellbinding novel. Jonah sets off to find his adopted brother, whom he has never met. His journey across America in search of his family, and his own identity, is unforgettable.
From Publishers Weekly
Three lives viewed through a kaleidoscope of memories and secret pain assume a kind of mythical dimension in Chaon's piercingly poignant tale of fate, chance and search for redemption. As he demonstrated in his short story collection
Among the Missing, Chaon has a sensitive radar for the daily routines of people striving to escape the margins of poverty and establish meaningful lives. Here, a woman's unsuccessful effort to rise above the pain of giving away an illegitimate baby, and to fight against mental illness and offer love to a second child, blights all their lives. Living with his harsh and bitter mother, Norma, and his kindly grandfather in Little Bow, S.Dak., young Jonah Doyle is permanently scarred after the family's Doberman attacks and maims him. The resulting livid ridges on his face are the outward manifestations of a deeper wound that will always haunt him. After his mother's suicide, Jonah sets out to find the older brother he has never met, and in the process, brings them both to the verge of tragedy. Jonah's older sibling is Troy Timmens, a well-meaning bartender and sometime drug dealer in St. Bonaventure, Nebr., who is devoted to his six-year-old son, Loomis. The boy will play a pivotal part in Jonah's quixotic attempts to win Troy's love. Chaon structures his plot in alternating flashbacks, and the fragmentary time structure forces the reader to puzzle out the relationships and contributes to rising dramatic tension. Chaon's clarity of observation, expressed in restrained, nuanced prose, coupled with his compassion for his flawed characters, creates a heart-wrenching story of people searching for connection.
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From The Washington Post
About a third of the way through Dan Chaon's remarkable first novel, You Remind Me of Me, a 6-year-old boy named Loomis Timmens is abducted from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny June morning in 1997. In a more conventional narrative, this is where the plot would kick into overdrive. We would get a blow-by-blow account of the police investigation, an unsparing portrait of the increasingly anguished parents, perhaps a broader portrait of the community in which the nightmarish event occurred. The mystery would propel the book relentlessly forward, toward a clear-cut resolution.
Chaon does something much more interesting. He devotes a couple of pages to the initial search for Loomis, then abruptly backtracks four years to fill in some background on Nora Doyle, a mentally unstable woman who gave up her first child for adoption in 1966. Then he hops forward three more years to chronicle the journey of Jonah Doyle, Nora's second child, from Chicago to St. Bonaventure, Neb., where he hopes to meet a man named Troy Timmens. According to documents Jonah has received from an investigative agency called PeopleSearch, Troy is "Baby Boy Doyle", the child the unwed 16-year-old Nora believed she was in no position to raise and had abandoned for his own good 30 years earlier. Troy, a bartender and small-time pot dealer, also happens to be Loomis's father.
For the next 100 or so pages, Chaon methodically chronicles the peculiar convergence of Nora's two sons, the one she raised and the one she gave up for adoption. Jonah, an emotionally needy, socially awkward man whose face is disfigured by scars
Jonah Doyle is six years old. He lives with his mother, his grandfather and their dog Elizabeth in a yellow house in South Dakota. It is a house full of tensions. And then one sunny day in early spring, a terrible accident occurs that will change the course of Jonah's life. That accident sets in motion a course of events that unfolds over the course of this spellbinding novel. Jonah sets off to find his adopted brother, whom he has never met. His journey across America in search of his family, and his own identity, is unforgettable.
From Publishers Weekly
Three lives viewed through a kaleidoscope of memories and secret pain assume a kind of mythical dimension in Chaon's piercingly poignant tale of fate, chance and search for redemption. As he demonstrated in his short story collection
Among the Missing, Chaon has a sensitive radar for the daily routines of people striving to escape the margins of poverty and establish meaningful lives. Here, a woman's unsuccessful effort to rise above the pain of giving away an illegitimate baby, and to fight against mental illness and offer love to a second child, blights all their lives. Living with his harsh and bitter mother, Norma, and his kindly grandfather in Little Bow, S.Dak., young Jonah Doyle is permanently scarred after the family's Doberman attacks and maims him. The resulting livid ridges on his face are the outward manifestations of a deeper wound that will always haunt him. After his mother's suicide, Jonah sets out to find the older brother he has never met, and in the process, brings them both to the verge of tragedy. Jonah's older sibling is Troy Timmens, a well-meaning bartender and sometime drug dealer in St. Bonaventure, Nebr., who is devoted to his six-year-old son, Loomis. The boy will play a pivotal part in Jonah's quixotic attempts to win Troy's love. Chaon structures his plot in alternating flashbacks, and the fragmentary time structure forces the reader to puzzle out the relationships and contributes to rising dramatic tension. Chaon's clarity of observation, expressed in restrained, nuanced prose, coupled with his compassion for his flawed characters, creates a heart-wrenching story of people searching for connection.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From The Washington Post
About a third of the way through Dan Chaon's remarkable first novel, You Remind Me of Me, a 6-year-old boy named Loomis Timmens is abducted from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny June morning in 1997. In a more conventional narrative, this is where the plot would kick into overdrive. We would get a blow-by-blow account of the police investigation, an unsparing portrait of the increasingly anguished parents, perhaps a broader portrait of the community in which the nightmarish event occurred. The mystery would propel the book relentlessly forward, toward a clear-cut resolution.
Chaon does something much more interesting. He devotes a couple of pages to the initial search for Loomis, then abruptly backtracks four years to fill in some background on Nora Doyle, a mentally unstable woman who gave up her first child for adoption in 1966. Then he hops forward three more years to chronicle the journey of Jonah Doyle, Nora's second child, from Chicago to St. Bonaventure, Neb., where he hopes to meet a man named Troy Timmens. According to documents Jonah has received from an investigative agency called PeopleSearch, Troy is "Baby Boy Doyle", the child the unwed 16-year-old Nora believed she was in no position to raise and had abandoned for his own good 30 years earlier. Troy, a bartender and small-time pot dealer, also happens to be Loomis's father.
For the next 100 or so pages, Chaon methodically chronicles the peculiar convergence of Nora's two sons, the one she raised and the one she gave up for adoption. Jonah, an emotionally needy, socially awkward man whose face is disfigured by scars
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Jonah Doyle is six years old. He lives with his mother, his grandfather and their dog Elizabeth in a yellow house in South Dakota. It is a house full of tensions. And then one sunny day in early spring, a terrible accident occurs that will change the course of Jonah's life. That accident sets in motion a course of events that unfolds over the course of this spellbinding novel. Jonah sets off to find his adopted brother, whom he has never met. His journey across America in search of his family, and his own identity, is unforgettable.
From Publishers Weekly
Three lives viewed through a kaleidoscope of memories and secret pain assume a kind of mythical dimension in Chaon's piercingly poignant tale of fate, chance and search for redemption. As he demonstrated in his short story collection
Among the Missing, Chaon has a sensitive radar for the daily routines of people striving to escape the margins of poverty and establish meaningful lives. Here, a woman's unsuccessful effort to rise above the pain of giving away an illegitimate baby, and to fight against mental illness and offer love to a second child, blights all their lives. Living with his harsh and bitter mother, Norma, and his kindly grandfather in Little Bow, S.Dak., young Jonah Doyle is permanently scarred after the family's Doberman attacks and maims him. The resulting livid ridges on his face are the outward manifestations of a deeper wound that will always haunt him. After his mother's suicide, Jonah sets out to find the older brother he has never met, and in the process, brings them both to the verge of tragedy. Jonah's older sibling is Troy Timmens, a well-meaning bartender and sometime drug dealer in St. Bonaventure, Nebr., who is devoted to his six-year-old son, Loomis. The boy will play a pivotal part in Jonah's quixotic attempts to win Troy's love. Chaon structures his plot in alternating flashbacks, and the fragmentary time structure forces the reader to puzzle out the relationships and contributes to rising dramatic tension. Chaon's clarity of observation, expressed in restrained, nuanced prose, coupled with his compassion for his flawed characters, creates a heart-wrenching story of people searching for connection.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From The Washington Post
About a third of the way through Dan Chaon's remarkable first novel, You Remind Me of Me, a 6-year-old boy named Loomis Timmens is abducted from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny June morning in 1997. In a more conventional narrative, this is where the plot would kick into overdrive. We would get a blow-by-blow account of the police investigation, an unsparing portrait of the increasingly anguished parents, perhaps a broader portrait of the community in which the nightmarish event occurred. The mystery would propel the book relentlessly forward, toward a clear-cut resolution.
Chaon does something much more interesting. He devotes a couple of pages to the initial search for Loomis, then abruptly backtracks four years to fill in some background on Nora Doyle, a mentally unstable woman who gave up her first child for adoption in 1966. Then he hops forward three more years to chronicle the journey of Jonah Doyle, Nora's second child, from Chicago to St. Bonaventure, Neb., where he hopes to meet a man named Troy Timmens. According to documents Jonah has received from an investigative agency called PeopleSearch, Troy is "Baby Boy Doyle", the child the unwed 16-year-old Nora believed she was in no position to raise and had abandoned for his own good 30 years earlier. Troy, a bartender and small-time pot dealer, also happens to be Loomis's father.
For the next 100 or so pages, Chaon methodically chronicles the peculiar convergence of Nora's two sons, the one she raised and the one she gave up for adoption. Jonah, an emotionally needy, socially awkward man whose face is disfigured by scars
Jonah Doyle is six years old. He lives with his mother, his grandfather and their dog Elizabeth in a yellow house in South Dakota. It is a house full of tensions. And then one sunny day in early spring, a terrible accident occurs that will change the course of Jonah's life. That accident sets in motion a course of events that unfolds over the course of this spellbinding novel. Jonah sets off to find his adopted brother, whom he has never met. His journey across America in search of his family, and his own identity, is unforgettable.
From Publishers Weekly
Three lives viewed through a kaleidoscope of memories and secret pain assume a kind of mythical dimension in Chaon's piercingly poignant tale of fate, chance and search for redemption. As he demonstrated in his short story collection
Among the Missing, Chaon has a sensitive radar for the daily routines of people striving to escape the margins of poverty and establish meaningful lives. Here, a woman's unsuccessful effort to rise above the pain of giving away an illegitimate baby, and to fight against mental illness and offer love to a second child, blights all their lives. Living with his harsh and bitter mother, Norma, and his kindly grandfather in Little Bow, S.Dak., young Jonah Doyle is permanently scarred after the family's Doberman attacks and maims him. The resulting livid ridges on his face are the outward manifestations of a deeper wound that will always haunt him. After his mother's suicide, Jonah sets out to find the older brother he has never met, and in the process, brings them both to the verge of tragedy. Jonah's older sibling is Troy Timmens, a well-meaning bartender and sometime drug dealer in St. Bonaventure, Nebr., who is devoted to his six-year-old son, Loomis. The boy will play a pivotal part in Jonah's quixotic attempts to win Troy's love. Chaon structures his plot in alternating flashbacks, and the fragmentary time structure forces the reader to puzzle out the relationships and contributes to rising dramatic tension. Chaon's clarity of observation, expressed in restrained, nuanced prose, coupled with his compassion for his flawed characters, creates a heart-wrenching story of people searching for connection.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From The Washington Post
About a third of the way through Dan Chaon's remarkable first novel, You Remind Me of Me, a 6-year-old boy named Loomis Timmens is abducted from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny June morning in 1997. In a more conventional narrative, this is where the plot would kick into overdrive. We would get a blow-by-blow account of the police investigation, an unsparing portrait of the increasingly anguished parents, perhaps a broader portrait of the community in which the nightmarish event occurred. The mystery would propel the book relentlessly forward, toward a clear-cut resolution.
Chaon does something much more interesting. He devotes a couple of pages to the initial search for Loomis, then abruptly backtracks four years to fill in some background on Nora Doyle, a mentally unstable woman who gave up her first child for adoption in 1966. Then he hops forward three more years to chronicle the journey of Jonah Doyle, Nora's second child, from Chicago to St. Bonaventure, Neb., where he hopes to meet a man named Troy Timmens. According to documents Jonah has received from an investigative agency called PeopleSearch, Troy is "Baby Boy Doyle", the child the unwed 16-year-old Nora believed she was in no position to raise and had abandoned for his own good 30 years earlier. Troy, a bartender and small-time pot dealer, also happens to be Loomis's father.
For the next 100 or so pages, Chaon methodically chronicles the peculiar convergence of Nora's two sons, the one she raised and the one she gave up for adoption. Jonah, an emotionally needy, socially awkward man whose face is disfigured by scars
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368
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