Find Me (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Praise for Laura van den Berg

"Confident, gripping stories . . . Ms. van den Berg spins complex plots around a sense of emotional emptiness. Her stories are bursting at the seams, while her characters are lonely to the core." --John Williams, "The New York Times"

Praise for Laura van den Berg
"Confident, gripping stories . . . Ms. van den Berg spins complex plots around a sense of emotional emptiness. Her stories are bursting at the seams, while her characters are lonely to the core." --John Williams, "The New York Times"

Praise for Laura van den Berg

Radiant prose...From this memorable novel's eerie first paragraph to its enigmatic ending, Laura van den Berg has invented something beautiful indeed.--Elizabeth Hand "Los Angeles Times "

...incredibly precise... "Find Me" is being compared to Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" and Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go." While it stands up to such fine company, I'd argue that van den Berg has a style, humor and grit that is all her own.--Claire Cameron "Salon "

A thoughtful, touching story about survival - about finding ways to heal and reasons to live.--Kim Hubbard "People Magazine "

Van den Berg depicts a life slowly coming into focus - it's blurry and impressionistic at times, sometimes deliriously scattered. But out of the fog of memory and the haze of drugs emerges a sense of clarity that's deep and moving and real.--Michael Patrick Brady "The Boston Globe "

Spellbinding... "Find Me "is crafted to be consumed in small sips, though with a novel so full of mystery and surprise, the temptation is to gulp. Chapters are broken into short sections that jump between Joy's rocky adolescence and the present, yet feel rich and immersive. The book's second act is pleasurably unpredictable as we encounter oddball characters and bizarre situations... but here we also feel van den Berg digging deeper, delivering a mesmerizing and emotional experience that invites readers to, like Joy, savor life.--Kelly Luce "O, The Oprah Magazine "

This elegiac debut novel by a hotly-tipped young American writer takes an ebola-style pandemic as the jumping-off point for a lingering meditation on memory.--Nicole Lee "The Guardian "

An unforgettable and, against all odds, unique tale... "Find Me" eases into itself, and the deeper we venture into it, the more glorious the book becomes in its embodiment of doubt and self-scrutiny... van den Berg's debut is a keen examination of trying to live under the weight of that choice, and the weight of all else we can't choose.--Tiffany Gilbert "Time Out New York "