Await Your Reply

Await Your Reply (2009) by Dan Chaon. Three separate narrative strands trace the fates of three separate characters -- one is a brother constantly searching for his missing twin, one is a high school girl who falls in love with her mysterious history teacher, and one is a young man who falls into a life of crime with his long-lost father. But the three narratives gradually merge closer and closer together, until you finally realize they all have one character in common. It's a fascinating, well-written, and still puzzling book which I think would reward re-reading. One of the best books I've read all year. Grade: A