How We Escaped Our Certain Fate
By Dan Chaon
2014
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4.03
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24
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As an infection rages, leaving a swath of horror in its wake, Peter and his father do their best to maintain normal lives. Peter, just a child when the infection took hold of the nation, has taken up a militaristic and punitive view of how to deal with the walking dead. His father, however, can’t help but feel compassion for the creatures. When they discover their fence has been breached, Peter’s father suspects the intruder is much more than a rabid zombie—and risks everything with his heart.
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Author
Dan Chaon
Author · 15 books
Dan Chaon is the author of Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and You Remind Me of Me, which was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, and he was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and teaches at Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing. His new novel, Await Your Reply, will be published in late August 2009.
