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Find Me
Find Me: A Novel | Laura van den Berg
After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novela 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 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 patientsincluding 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.
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JacintaMCarter
Find Me: A Novel | Laura van den Berg
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Mehso-so

#2022Book112
I really liked the first half of this book, especially as it‘s a “pandemic dystopia” written years before covid. But the second half followed a completely new plot line that kind of came out of nowhere and didn‘t seem structured enough for a final draft.

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NatalieR
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Many US citizens are infected with an illness that steals their memories and then they die a few days later. Joy, a lone young woman, works the graveyard shift at a grocery store and feeds an addiction to cough syrup. She‘s invited to live at a research hospital in Kansas. There, she develops a bond with another patient. Eventually, she leaves the hospital on a mission to find someone and encounters interesting people. #MountTBR

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LiteraryMind
Find Me: A Novel | Laura van den Berg
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That horrible moment when you run into someone who looks familiar and then miraculously find their picture on your Church‘s testimonial page. I pray and wish I knew who you are, oh unnamed man!
#NoName #DestinyOrNot

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CuriousG
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Mehso-so

I enjoyed this book, but kept wanting to recreate all the feels I got from Station Eleven. If I could switch the order in which I read them this might have been a pick!

PlannerGirlBookClub Ah Station Eleven... all the feels! 8y
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CuriousG
Find Me: A Novel | Laura van den Berg
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Cuddled under the blankets with coffee and a good book - Happy Thanksgiving morning!
Amazing caravan #masonjarsleeve from #Refluff (check it out @refluffs on Instagram!)
#campinglife #booklife

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CuriousG
Find Me: A Novel | Laura van den Berg
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Everyone's suggled up for story time. #campinglife #rainydayreading

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Anita
Find Me: A Novel | Laura van den Berg
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This is my blind date book. I love that my library does this. @Lindy

Lindy 😀 8y
Reviewsbylola Wow, what a fun idea! 8y
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eleanorrr
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"Trust is out of style. Or was it EVER stylish? I can't say that I remember."

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Baileythebookworm
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I bought and read this book while on a trip earlier this year, and thoroughly enjoyed it. My own memory is not the best, so a disease that steals memories entirely was a fascinating and scary concept.

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