"You Remind Me of Me begins with a series of separate incidents: In 1974, a little boy is savagely attacked by his mother's pet Doberman; in 1997, another little boy disappears from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny summer morning; in 1966, a pregnant teenager admits herself to a maternity home, with the intention of giving up her child for adoption; in 1991, a young man drifts toward a career as a drug dealer, even as he hopes for something better. Dan Chaon explores the secret connections that irrevocably link them. In the process he 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 can we change the course of what seems inevitable?" Chaon moves deftly between the past and the present in the small-town prairie Midwest and shows us the extraordinary lives of "ordinary" people.
I hoped to really love this book, it started out great and I immediately fell in love with the character, Jonah, but ultimately the book began to drag and I did not like the ending. Having to rate this as a 2.5 out of 5. I felt that the book could have ended much better for Jonah's character. I wound up hating his mother, Norah, even though she was a weak individual, she ruined any chance of happiness for her offspring.
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