Dan Chaon. (2009). Among the Missing: Stories. Random House Publishing Group.

Dan Chaon. 2009. Among the Missing: Stories. Random House Publishing Group.

Dan Chaon, Among the Missing: Stories. Random House Publishing Group, 2009.

Dan Chaon. Among the Missing: Stories. Random House Publishing Group, 2009.

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   • bioText: Dan Chaon is the acclaimed author of Fitting Ends and Other Stories. He was anthologized in Best American Short Stories 1996 and The Pushcart Prize 2000. He has been published in such magazines as Story, Ploughshares, and Triquarterly, and has received many prizes and honors including a grant from the Ohio Arts Council. He lives in Ohio with his wife and children. He is currently at work on his first novel.
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In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with sharp humor, mystery, wonder, and startling compassion. Among the Missing lingers in the mind through its subtle grace and power of language.

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   • source: LORRIE MOOREBestselling author of Birds of America
   • content: "ONE OF THE BEST SHORT STORY WRITERS AROUND . . .Dan Chaon's stories are funny, heartbreaking,beautifully written, and intelligently conceived."
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     June 11, 2001
     In the 12 quietly accomplished stories of his second collection, Chaon explores the complicated geography of human relationships, from the unintentional failures and minute betrayals of daily existence to the numbing grief caused by abandonment, disappearance or death. Specific and disquieting absences—an uncle who killed himself, a mother who vanished, a friend who was kidnapped—haunt the protagonists, and a series of metaphoric and literal stand-ins take the place of what's missing. In "Safety Man," a dummy intended for crime deterrence—propped in the passenger seat, it looks like a male companion—becomes a kind of surrogate husband for a young widow, and for her daughters, an inflatable father; in "I Demand to Know Where You're Taking Me," a woman caring for her incarcerated brother-in-law's macaw comes to loathe the bird, its ugly talk transforming it into a symbol of everything wrong and incomprehensible about him. By and large, Chaon's characters are citizens of the emotional hinterlands, lonely even when surrounded: "How did people go about falling in love, getting married, having families, living their lives?" Even those who think they know the answers recognize their powerlessness, such as the father who, looking into his son's eyes, thinks, "I am aware that hatred is a definite possibility at the end of the long tunnel of parenthood, and I suspect that there is little one can do about it." And yet these stories are neither morbid nor even particularly melancholic. Singularly dedicated to an examination of all the profundity and strangeness of the quotidian, they are, in their best moments, unsettling, moving, even beautiful. (July 3)Forecast:A jacket blurb by Lorrie Moore and a five-city author tour may help sell this understated collection, which will be respectfully reviewed but may be overlooked on bookstore shelves.

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     March 1, 2001
     Short stories don't usually get this much hype a two-page spread in the catalog, no less but Chaon has done well with his works: they have appeared in the "Distinguished Stories" section of The Pushcart Prize six times and in Best American Short Stories three times. These pieces focus on people just trying to get by in America today.

     Copyright 2001 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     July 1, 2001
     People go missing both literally and figuratively in Chaon's beautiful and insightful stories, most of which are set in small, muffled Midwest towns. In "Passengers, Remain Calm," 22-year-old Hollis, reflective and immensely kind, tries hard to let F. D., his 8-year-old nephew, know that he loves him without making F. D.'s father, who has inexplicably disappeared, look bad. Another expressive narrator is haunted by a long-held secret associated with the vanishing of his boyhood friend. As each of Chaon's profoundly thoughtful characters discovers, missing selves are just as distressing as missing people. A young father is astonished at how quickly he becomes a caricature dad, and he mourns the loss of his "real" self. In a curious reversal, the lonely boy in "Big Me" becomes obsessed with a boozy neighbor who, he fears, embodies his future. Riveting and unpredictable, each pristine tale of absence looms like the proverbial tip of the iceberg as Chaon succeeds brilliantly in suggesting the immensity and mystery floating silently below the surface of everyday life, shadowy compressions of all the complicated and contradictory thoughts and feelings that humans conceal from each other out of fear and love.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2001, American Library Association.)

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     April 1, 2001
     Chaon's stories have been published in many literary magazines and have been anthologized in places like Best American Short Stories. In his splendid second collection of short stories (after Fitting Ends), the past always remains a huge presence. In the title story, a son unsuccessfully tries to strengthen his relationship with his mother. In "Safety Man," a young widow struggles to cope with her loss while bringing up her two young daughters, eventually making an inflatable half-man a part of the family. In "Late for the Wedding," Trent wants to marry his former college instructor; her visiting son reveals that his mother has been having affairs with her students for year. In "The Illustrated History of the Animal Kingdom," a Pushcart Prize 2000 story, a lonely newcomer, who fails in his attempt to form a friendship with a young mother in his apartment building, ends up feeling that the world is out of sync. Chaon's contemporary stories intimately reveal modern life and the secrets people keep. Recommended for all libraries. Mary Szczesiul, Roseville P.L., MI

     Copyright 2001 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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