What is it like to lose one's moorings, abandon a family? "What kind of person decides they can throw everything away and - reinvent themselves? As if you can just discard the parts of your life that you didn't want anymore. " (page. 198) This is the central and unrelenting question in Chaon's unsettling novel, Await Your Reply. Six characters in search of identity and each other, converge and merge in three separate stories, reflecting on the themes of loss, love and survival.