· Long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 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 . 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 suppress her troubled past/5(). · Long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 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 Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
"Find Me" by Laura Van Den Berg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) By Annie E. Schugart, Crimson Staff Writer. Joy, an enigmatic young woman brooding in the confines of a futuristic New England hospital. About the Author: Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her M.F.A. at Emerson College. Her first novel, Find Me, published by FSG in , was selected as a "Best Book of " by NPR, Time Out New York, and BuzzFeed, among others, in addition to being longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Laura van den Berg. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (p) ISBN
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 by more than a dozen publications. 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. Find Me by. Laura van den Berg (Goodreads Author) avg rating — 4, ratings. score: , and 9 people voted.
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