AWAIT YOUR REPLY by Dan Chaon
AWAIT YOUR REPLY by Dan Chaon Review (3 1/2 out of 5 Stars) Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon Release Date: August 25, 2009 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pages: 336 Buy on Amazon In Dan Chaon’s new thriller, Await Your Reply, he explores the meaning of identity in today’s world of computers and the Internet. He makes the reader think about what constitutes a person’s identity besides personal data like social security and bank account numbers that are sitting on a server somewhere. He also looks at the sometime romanticized idea of abandoning your old life and starting over as someone new. For the characters in this book, the reality of a new identity is a lonely existence that also has dangerous consequences. Await Your Reply follows three separate storylines of people who have left behind their families to start a new life. Ryan walked away from his life as a [...]
