“You’re a different person when you’re at work, at home, out with your friends. Over the course of your life, your sense of self and where you belong in the world changes. In my case, it was fairly radical. I started out in a fairly poor working-class home, my dad was a construction worker. Now I’m living in a nice suburban community, and I’m a college professor. Identity is a creation that we’re all engaged in. We’re all novelists, putting together the stories of our own lives.”
Dan Chaon talks adoption, identity theft, reading as a child, and his new novel, Await Your Reply, in The Wall Street Journal interview “Stealing Stories.”
Also, be sure to check out Rumpus contributor Steve Almond‘s review.
