Find Me

A beautiful and compelling read

Ann Patchett

One of the most freakishly talented young writers at work today

Karen Russell

a distinctive new voice…original…intoxicating

BBC

A timeless chronicle of self-discovery…unforgettable…

Time Out

A haunting exploration of loneliness

Marie Claire

[Laura’s stories are ]… uniformly excellent - emotionally complex, very raw - but always with a mixture of pathos and humour that made me think of Lorrie Moore

Dave Eggers

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…

O, The Oprah Magazine

Like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale or Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, van den Berg’s debut novel presents a frighteningly plausible near-future dystopia grounded in human elements… heartbreakingly real and compellingly wrought

Library Journal

A fresh spin on apocalyptic stories, Find Me beautifully evaluates memory loss and the stories we tell ourselves

Huffington Post

From this memorable novel's eerie first paragraph to its enigmatic ending, Laura van den Berg has invented something beautiful indeed

LA Times

Laura van den Berg is the best young writer in America

Claire Cameron, author of The Bear, Salon

This elegiac debut novel … lingers and aches in the memory

The Guardian

This is a thoughtful, touching story about survival—about finding ways to heal and reasons to live.

People

In Find Me, 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

The Boston Globe

In understated prose, Laura creates Joy’s distorted and strange world. As we enter into that fictional world, we see that it reflects, in many ways, the real world where we find ourselves today. And in Joy’s loneliness and desire to connect, we recognize ourselves.

The Los Angeles Review of Books

Marvellous

Vanity Fair

hauntingly beautiful . . . Don’t miss this remarkable book

Bustle

This is one of my favorite novels of 2015, and we’re not even IN 2015 yet . . .The language is beautiful, spare, and carefully crafted, and the characters are fully realized and unforgettable. There is tension and redemption and insight and even humor in these pages, and they make for a really incredible read

Bookriot

Both novels offer precision of language and metaphor and scene even as what is being constructed feels messy, chaotic, sad, hopeless... Both orphaned and alone in the world, both so completely real, both telling a story that feels important and exciting to read. I feel lucky to have stumbled upon these books this year, and challenged by them to be better

The Millions

Find Me, her transfixing first novel, is in keeping with her short stories thematically, and yet, in its deep soundings, it’s a commanding departure. . . Van den Berg’s enveloping novel of a plague and a seeker in an endangered world reveals what it feels like to grow up unwanted and unknown in a civilization hell-bent on self-destruction. It is also a beautifully strange, sad, and provocative inquiry into our failure to love, cherish, and protect. But ultimately, Find Me is a delving story of courage, persistence, and hope

Booklist

This debut novel by acclaimed short story writer van den Berg tends to lean much closer to the realms of literary fiction with its complex psychology. . . Van den Berg's writing is curiously beautiful

Kirkus

steeped in the anxieties of our era

New York Times

pleasingly strange ... impressively original

The New York Times Book Review

[a] brilliant and claustrophobic novel

VICE

Surreal adventures blend with a reflective and sad sensibility in van den Berg’s lyrical debut novel

Library Journal

one to watch out for

The Independent

A very impressive, must read for fans of STATION ELEVEN, so unsettling but subtle too. I loved FIND ME…

Eva Dolan

Original piece of dystopian fiction...disturbing and thought provoking...

Daily Mail

a moving, and frequently funny, exploration of character and of trauma

Independent

so compelling ... an unforgettable debut

Irish Independent

a wonderful read

Nina Allan, Interzone

Sad, eerie, smart, cynical and heartbreaking

Robin Wasserman

A must read

Stylist Magazine

a strange beauty in this apocalyptic tale

Psychologies