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Puzzle of two brothers who seek identity, human kinship.(BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20040704
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Byline: Merin Wexle, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In his epigraph to "Howard's End," E.M. Forster wrote, "Only connect" - which is to say that at the end of the day human relationships are the only things we have that matter.

Dan Chaon, in his stunning first novel, "You Remind Me of Me," takes that premise and explores what happens when the bonds of human connection have been all but lost, when kinship has been decimated, and when people become so isolated and separated from their sense of self that they live like fugitives, in their own kind of autistic state, ...

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