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‘Stay Awake: Stories’ by Dan Chaon

By John Freeman

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  February 19, 2012

Set across the Midwestern in a vague present tense, Dan Chaon’s “Stay Awake’’ unfolds in an insomniac world of the world at night. Grocery stores in the gloaming; hospitals where the voices are kept down; train stations when the last arrival comes in. Chaon describes these blue hours - and the lost souls awake within them - with poetic precision.

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