"With penetrating insight and a deep devotion to his characters, Pushcart and O. Henry Award-winning author Dan Chaon explores the secret connections and examines questions of identity, fate, and circumstance: Why do we become the people we become? How do we end up stuck in lives we never wanted? And how can we change the course of what seems inevitable?"
"Jonah Doyle is six years old. He lives with his mother, his grandfather and their dog Elizabeth in a yellow house in South Dakota. It is a house full of tensions, for Jonah's grandfather is old and tired, and his mother often doesn't want to talk at all. And then one sunny day in early spring, when the snow has mostly melted, a terrible accident occurs that will change the course of Jonah's life."@en
"""Why do we become the people we become? How do we end up stuck in lives we never wanted?"--Page 4 of cover."
"A tale of the impact of circumstance on identity follows the interconnected lives of a boy who is attacked by a dog, a pregnant teenager, a young man considering a drug-dealing career, and a child who disappears from his grandmother's backyard."
"A tale of the impact of circumstance on identity follows the interconnected lives of a boy who is attacked by a dog, a pregnant teenager, a young man considering a drug-dealing career, and a child who disappears from his grandmother's backyard."@en