Summary
However close Dan Chaon's characters come, they can't quite connect. Disconnection rules: in families, in dreams. Even fortunate coincidences subside into spiritless accidents...
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:07.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:11.2 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:14.9 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:18.3 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:21.9 | From KCRW, Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. |
| 0:26.8 | Today my guest is Dan Sean, the author of You Remind Me of Me. |
| 0:32.0 | It's a first novel published by Ballantine Books. |
| 0:35.0 | He has two previous collections of stories among the missing and fitting |
| 0:39.1 | ends. In this book, we watch Jonah Doyle. He leaves his home in, is it South Dakota? Yeah. |
| 0:50.8 | And after his mother's death, his mother has been mentally ill. |
| 0:57.3 | This is someone who has grown up with his mother aware that he is her second child. |
| 1:05.3 | That she's given the first of the children away. |
| 1:08.9 | She wishes that she had given him away, too, and she tells him so. |
| 1:14.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:15.7 | Because she thinks he might have been happier. |
| 1:18.2 | Right. |
| 1:19.1 | What ensues for him as a kind of prince-in-the-popper quest. |
| 1:23.2 | Right. |
| 1:23.9 | Is life happier somewhere else? |
| 1:26.2 | Right. |
| 1:27.1 | And he goes to find his missing, his lost, his given away brother. |
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