{"product_id":"stay-awake","title":"Stay Awake","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn these \"superbly disquieting\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) stories, lost, fragile, and searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland--from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmong the Missing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Powerful and disturbing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Eerily beautiful.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Chaon is] a literary force.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes an exclusive conversation between Dan Chaon and Emma Straub\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn twelve chilling stories, Dan Chaon introduces us to characters who have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection--and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA father's life is upended by his son's night terrors--and disturbing memories of the first wife and child he abandoned; a foster child receives a call from the past and begins to remember his birth mother, whose actions were unthinkable; a divorced woman experiences her own dark version of \"empty-nest syndrome\"; a young widower is unnerved by the sudden, inexplicable appearances of messages and notes--on dollar bills, inside a magazine, stapled to the side of a tree; and a college dropout begins to suspect that there's something off, something sinister, in his late parents' house. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eStay Awake\u003c\/i\u003e feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm--in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake.","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48835895853261,"sku":"9780345530387","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_4496cec6-1489-4389-ae66-4c8935c65255.jpg?v=1790988782","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/stay-awake","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}