Sleepwalk

Sleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he's been living off the grid for over half his life. A good-natured henchman with a lonely past and a passion for LSD micro dosing, he spends his time hopscotching across state lines in his beloved camper van, running dangerous errands for a powerful and ruthless operation he's never troubled himself to learn too much about.

Out of the blue, one of Will's many burner phones heralds a call from a twenty-year-old woman claiming to be his biological daughter. She says she's the product of one of his long-ago sperm donations; he's half certain she's AI. She needs his help. She's entrenched in a widespread and nefarious plot involving Will's employers, and for Will to continue to have any contact with her increasingly fuzzes the line between the people he is working for and the people he's running from.

With his signature blend of haunting emotional realism and fast-paced intrigue, Dan Chaon populates his fractured America with characters who ring all too true. Sleepwalk examines the connections that bind us, no matter how far we travel to dodge them or how cleverly we hide.

'As ever, Chaon expertly fuses the dystopian nightmares of technology and crime with fascinating characters who cross a hellscape to find each other. This is his best one yet'
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'What prevails above the plot is the voice, which is consistently winning' New York Times