
Chaon's story collection “Stay Awake“ is a solid collection of midwest despair. Going against the dominant mode of a lot of contemporary short stories containing a minor revelation, Chaon is comfortable in ambiguity. I really liked every story in this collection (with the exception of “Thinking Of You In Your Time Of Sorrow“ which I really disliked). Favorites are “I Wake Up,“ “To Psychic Underworld“ “The Farm, The Gold, The Lily-White Hand (CONT)
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