Find Me: A Novel
Feb 2015 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A gripping, imaginative, and darkly funny debut novel about a young woman's struggle to find her place in a dystopian world ravaged by a memory-stealing epidemic.
After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us her highly anticipated debut novel, Find Me. Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston, nursing an addiction to cough syrup to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy's immunity gives her a chance to escape her bleak existence.
Admitted to a hospital in rural Kansas, Joy submits to peculiar treatments and forms cautious bonds with other patients, including her roommate and twin boys digging a secret tunnel. As winter descends and the hospital's order breaks down, Joy breaks free on a journey from Kansas to Florida, seeking the birth mother who abandoned her. In a devastated America, she encounters mysterious companions, strange cities, and one eerie house, all while confronting her own damaged memory and secrets.
After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us her highly anticipated debut novel, Find Me. Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston, nursing an addiction to cough syrup to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy's immunity gives her a chance to escape her bleak existence.
Admitted to a hospital in rural Kansas, Joy submits to peculiar treatments and forms cautious bonds with other patients, including her roommate and twin boys digging a secret tunnel. As winter descends and the hospital's order breaks down, Joy breaks free on a journey from Kansas to Florida, seeking the birth mother who abandoned her. In a devastated America, she encounters mysterious companions, strange cities, and one eerie house, all while confronting her own damaged memory and secrets.
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3.2
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March 8, 2015
I finished this book only because I hate to start a book and not finish it. It took me forever to read it! I was not impressed.
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Rosemarie Trujillo
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February 21, 2015
Ended prematurely.
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About the author
Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida. Her first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her second collection of stories, The Isle of Youth (published by FSG Originals in 2013), received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Find Me is her first novel. She lives in the Boston area.
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