Written by Dan Chaon, Await Your Reply tries to raise questions about identity, but unfortunately forgets to develop them, deciding instead to focus its attention on a boring group of shallow, static characters.
The story is told through the eyes of three main characters: we follow Lucy’s point of view, a student who ran away with her history professor, George, with the promise of getting rich; but also the young Ray, who discovers he is adopted and, after running away from home, finds his biological father and enters the world of crime; and finally, we have the bitter Miles, who is searching for his twin brother, Hayden, and one day acquires new clues as to his [...]