Comments on: “Await Your Reply” by Dan Chaon http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3307 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Mon, 18 May 2026 23:28:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Kate http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3307&cpage=1#comment-18078 Kate Wed, 12 May 2010 14:26:08 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3307#comment-18078 I'm really glad you liked this one. I enjoyed it, found it unnerving, and couldn't put it down. I successfully talked our book club into picking it up (I'm going to start calling our club the "multiple or unreliable narrators club" given the books we've read--Oscar Wao, Plague of Doves, Let the Great World Spin, Await Your Reply). I liked the young woman character, and her fear of losing who she was if no one knew who she was. I found her inner monologues fascinating. I’m really glad you liked this one. I enjoyed it, found it unnerving, and couldn’t put it down. I successfully talked our book club into picking it up (I’m going to start calling our club the “multiple or unreliable narrators club” given the books we’ve read–Oscar Wao, Plague of Doves, Let the Great World Spin, Await Your Reply).

I liked the young woman character, and her fear of losing who she was if no one knew who she was. I found her inner monologues fascinating.

]]> By: Steph http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3307&cpage=1#comment-18077 Steph Tue, 11 May 2010 19:33:08 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=3307#comment-18077 I have this one sitting on the shelf but haven't gotten to it yet. I loved Big Machine, however, and Memento is a great film, so your review has made me think I should bump this one up the pile. I always worry about multi-narrative stories not necessarily coalescing, but that doesn't sound like a problem here. I have this one sitting on the shelf but haven’t gotten to it yet. I loved Big Machine, however, and Memento is a great film, so your review has made me think I should bump this one up the pile. I always worry about multi-narrative stories not necessarily coalescing, but that doesn’t sound like a problem here.

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