By Don Chaon
Ballantine Books
Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged) and Large Print Editions

Jonah’s mother ignores him and yearns for the son she gave up for adoption before Jonah’s own illegitimate birth. For all Jonah knows, his sibling is living a perfect life while their mother drinks and daydreams.

You Remind Me of Me Excerpt But he did remember the baby, he thought. He and his mother had seen it at the market, being watched by a lady he didn’t know. The baby was pink-skinned, and had a tiny head without hair on it and it was inside something—a basket, he thought, a basket like apples came in at the grocery store. The baby was dressed in a green velvet suit with a Santa’s head on it, and rested on a red cushion. © Don Chaon Published with permission

His widowed grandfather tries to provide a normal life, but Jonah learns early that people naturally seem to dislike him.

When he is finally on his own, Jonah decides to look for his older brother in hopes of making some sort of connection that will bring peace to his troubled life. He makes a mess of it.

Instead of telling his brother the truth, he spies on him and pretends to be just another co-worker. Jonah finds that his brother’s life has not been ideal, but it is not made better when he finds out that he has a strange younger brother.

Bookworm's Briefing
This is the kind of quirky book that will have you reading well into the night and sneaking away to read during the day. Dan Chaon’s story of familial dysfunction reminds us that we are all a little odd in one way or another. This writer’s description of typical life through the eyes of an unstable man is masterfully handled in this terrific novel.

Chaon is also the author of Fitting Ends and Among the Missing.