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The Book Show

The Book Show

Dan Chaon - Sleepwalk

Published June 28, 2022 at 3:00 PM EDT

Dan Chaon’s latest thriller, “Sleepwalk,” is a high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big-hearted mercenary. The novel examines where we’ve been and where we’re going and the connections that bind us, no matter how far we travel to dodge them or how cleverly we hide.

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