The serpentine, intertwining narrative centers on three people searching to transcend their unfulfilled existences: Miles Cheshire, a thirtysomething drifter forever on the lookout for his brilliant but shifty long-lost twin brother, Hayden; Lucy Lattimore, a recently orphaned 18-year-old who goes on the lam with her English teacher, George Orson; and Ryan Schuyler, a college drop-out who fakes his own death and falls into the netherworld of technologically aided identity theft.
Chaon is an English professor at Oberlin College and the author of multiple works of fiction, including the National Book Award finalist You Remind Me of You. He reads from and discusses his fiction 7 p.m. Thursday in Tangeman University Center room 427 on UC's campus. Read Jason Gargano's interview with Chaon and get event details here.
