Sleepwalk - Dan Chaon

Written by Dan Chaon
Read by John Pirhalla
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 12h 04m

A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future American with a big-hearted mercenary.

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Sleepwalk’s hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur.

At 50 years old, he’s been living off the grid for over half his life.

He’s never had a real job, never paid taxes, never been in a committed relationship.

A good-natured henchman with a complicated and lonely past and an LSD microdosing problem, he spends his time hopscotching across state lines in his beloved camper van, running sometimes shady, often dangerous errands for a powerful and ruthless operation he’s never troubled himself to learn too much about.

He has lots of connections, but no true ties.

His longest relationships are with an old rescue dog with post-traumatic stress, and a childhood friend as deeply entrenched in the underworld as he is, who, lately, he’s less and less sure he can trust.

Out of the blue, one of his many burner phones heralds a call from a 20-year-old woman claiming to be his biological daughter, Cammie.

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 continuing to have any contact with her increasingly fuzzes the line between the people Will is working for and the people he’s running from.

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danchaon.com
audible.com/pd/Sleepwalk-Audiobook/1250839203
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nytimes.com/2022/05/24/books/review/dan-chaon-sleepwalk.html