What would we do if the world was afflicted by a terrible sickness that wiped out people’s memories? A twenty year old woman called Joy finds herself in suca a predicament in “Find Me”, Laura van den Berg’s post-apocalyptic debut novel. Set in present-day United States, the first part of the novel takes place in a hospital/5(). 7 rows · · Overview. Long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. After two acclaimed story Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. · Book Details. After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel--a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny tale of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to .
Laura van den Berg is the best young writer in America Laura van den Berg's debut novel "Find Me" is earning deserved comparisons to Margaret Atwood and Kazuo Ishiguro By Claire Cameron. "In 'Find Me,' Laura van den Berg eradicates a mere , of the population, but what she lacks in body count she makes up for by going straight for the psychological jugular. Here confusion and the scramble to make sense of one's present and past is not a side effect of the new world, but its defining feature.". Laura van den Berg. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (p) ISBN
Joy Jones, the narrator of “Find Me,” Laura van den Berg’s pleasingly strange first novel, has spent her whole life waiting to be found. Born in the winter of , she was left on the steps. Book Review: 'Find Me' by Laura van den Berg Reviewer Jason Heller says Laura Van Den Berg's first novel has a stellar setup — mysterious young woman, post-disease-apocalypse — but drifts. #FIND ME LAURA VAN DEN BERG #Download file | read online find me laura van den berg Find Me - A Novel After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel—a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny tale of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Joy has no one.
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