You Remind Me of Me (36 page)
About the Author
Dan Chaon’s book of short stories
Among the Missing
was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. In addition, the collection was listed as one of the ten best books of 2001 by the American Library Association,
Chicago Tribune
,
The Boston Globe
,
Las Vegas Mercury
, and
Entertainment Weekly
. It was also cited by
Publishers Weekly
,
The Washington Post
, and
The New York Times
as one of the notable books of the year. The collection has been translated into several languages.
Chaon’s stories have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and have been included in
The Best American Short Stories
for 1996 and 2003;
The Pushcart Prize
for 2000, 2002, and 2003; and
Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards
, where his story “Big Me” was chosen as the second-prize winner. His first collection of short stories,
Fitting Ends,
was published by Northwestern University Press in 1996 and has been reissued by Ballantine Books (2003) in a revised edition.
Chaon lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, with his wife and two sons, and teaches in the creative writing program at Oberlin College, where he is the Houck Associate Professor in the Humanities.
By Dan Chaon
Among the Missing
Fitting Ends
Thanks due: Noah Lukeman, Dan Smetanka, Elisabeth Dyssegaard, Steve Lattimore, Tom Barbash, Sheri Mount, Gilly Hailparn, Marie Coolman, Martha Collins, Sylvia Watanabe, Michael Byers, John Martin, Brian Bouldrey, Peggy McNally, Scott McNulty, Heather Bentoske.
This is a work of fiction. No characters in this novel are based on real people, and I have taken some poetic license with the facts of law, history, medicine, geography, and weather. While there is, in reality, a city named Chicago, the Chicago of this novel, as well as the towns of St. Bonaventure, Nebraska, Little Bow, South Dakota, and others, exist wholly in an alternate universe of the author’s imagination.
A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 2004 by Dan Chaon
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Portions of chapters 3 and 9 are from “Where Is Your Mind,” a story commissioned by Stories on Stage, a live dramatic short story reading series, produced by Chicago Public Radio.
The quotation on p. 104 is from
Ascent to Civilization:
The Archeology of Early Man
by John Gowlett (McGraw Hill: New York, 1984).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chaon, Dan.
You remind me of me / Dan Chaon.
p. cm.
I. Title.
PS3553.H277Y68 2004
813′.53—dc22 2003063776
eISBN: 978-0-345-47871-9
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