Find Me, Laura van den Berg
Find Me, Laura van den Berg
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Find Me

Author: Laura van den Berg

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/24/2015

Categories: Fiction, Psychological


Synopsis

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 suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune. When Joy's immunity gains her admittance to a hospital in rural Kansas, she sees a chance to escape her bleak existence. There she submits to peculiar treatments and follows seemingly arbitrary rules, forming cautious bonds with other patients—including her roommate, whom she turns to in the night for comfort, and twin boys who are digging a secret tunnel.

As winter descends, the hospital's fragile order breaks down and Joy breaks free, embarking on a journey from Kansas to Florida, where she believes she can find her birth mother, the woman who abandoned her as a child. On the road in a devastated America, she encounters mysterious companions, cities turned strange, and one very eerie house. As Joy closes in on Florida, she must confront her own damaged memory and the secrets she has been keeping from herself.

About Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth, and the novels Find Me and The Third Hotel, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and an Indie Next pick, and was named a best book of 2017 by more than a dozen publications. She is the recipient of a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, a PEN/O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and is a two-time finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Born and raised in Florida, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and dog.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maciek

Find Me is the story of and narrated by 19 year old Joy, who lives in a world swept by a mysterious pandemic known only as "the sickness". The sickness begins with memory loss and inevitably ends in death, claiming victims by the hundred thousands. The novel open in a hospital, where Joy is being he......more

Goodreads review by Bethan

The story revolves around nineteen-year-old Joy and begins in a hospital where she is being held with seventy-four others. A plague only known as ‘the sickness’ has swept the world and killed hundreds and thousands. My only problem with this novel is that it feels a bit aimless. There are a lot of qu......more