About the author:
\nDan Chaon \;is the author of several books\, including \
;Ill Will\, a national bestseller that was named one of the ten b
est books of the year by \;Publishers Weekly. Other works inc
lude the short story collection \;Stay Awake\, a finalist for
the Story Prize\; the national bestseller \;Await Your Reply
\; and \;Among the Missing\, a finalist for the National Book
Award. Chaon&rsquo\;s fiction has appeared in the \;Best American
Short Stories\, the Pushcart Prize Anthologies\, and the
In One of Us \, it&rsquo\;s 1915 and the world is transforming\, but for thirteen-year- old Bolt and Eleanor&mdash\;twins so close they can literally read each ot her&rsquo\;s minds&mdash\;life is falling apart. When their mother dies\, they are forced to leave home under the care of a vicious con man who clai ms to be their long-lost uncle Charlie\, the only kin they have left. Duri ng a late-night poker game\, when one of his rages ends in murder\, they d ecide to flee.
\nSalvation arrives in the form of Mr. Jengling\, fou nder of the Emporium of Wonders and father to its many members. He adopts Bolt and Eleanor\, who travel by train across the vast\, sometimes brutal American frontier with their new family\, watching as the exhibitions spar k amazement wherever they go. There&rsquo\;s Minnie\, the three-legged lad y\, and Dr. Chui\, who stands over seven feet tall\; Thistle Britches\, th e clown with no nose\, and Rosalie\, who can foretell the death of anyone she meets.
\nAfter a lifetime of having only each other\, Eleanor an d Bolt are finally part of something bigger. But as Bolt falls in deeper w ith their new clan\, he finds Eleanor pulling further away from him. And w hen Uncle Charlie picks up their trail\, the twins find themselves facing a peril as strange as it is terrifying\, one which will forever alter the trajectory of their lives. An ode to the misfits and the marginalized\,&nb sp\;One of Us \;is a riotous and singularly creepy celebratio n of the strange and the spectacular and of family in its many forms.
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