Description
Things I will never forget: my name, my made-up birthday...The dark of the Hospital at night. My mother's face, when she was young.
Things other people will forget: where they come from, how old they are, the faces of the people they love. The right words for bowl and sunshine...What is a beginning and what
is an end.
Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with silver blisters and 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.
At once a hauntingly beautiful portrayal of a dystopian future and a powerful exploration of loneliness.
A literary dystopian debut novel for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Margaret Atwood
About the Author
Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida. Her first collection of short 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 , 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.
Reviews
A beautiful and compelling read -- Ann Patchett
One of the most freakishly talented young writers at work today -- Karen Russell
pleasingly strange ... impressively original * The New York Times Book Review *
Original piece of dystopian fiction...disturbing and thought provoking... * Daily Mail *
a distinctive new voice...original...intoxicating * BBC *
Book Information
ISBN 9781785031328
Author Laura van den Berg
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Del Rey
Publisher Cornerstone
Weight(grams) 423g
Dimensions(mm) 222mm * 144mm * 28mm