As others fall ill, she is not afflicted. But when the illness begins affecting everyone in the country, Joy is surprised to find that she is apparently immune to it. Joy has always been ordinary, even less than special. It is a sickness an illness that starts off with the signs of memory loss and progressing until it ends in the death of the person afflicted. Her humdrum life is totally transformed when a pandemic begins sweeping across the nation. Things start to change quickly and little does Joy know that things will never be the same. She knows that she can’t keep going like this forever, but at the same time, she really has no plans to stop. The habit is just another way to try and escape from the memories of her past. She has developed an active addiction to drinking cough syrup. In addition to working a job just to pay the bills, Joy has another problem going on in her life.
She truly has no one and no purpose in life. Her personal life is even more empty than the shifts that she works under fluorescent lighting ringing people out. The store is just outside Boston and Joy works the graveyard shift. She is a young lady that spends most of her days working at a grocery store. It is here that the reader first meets the main character of Joy for the first time and is taken on an epic ride like none other. The creative story is an imaginative and gripping tale of a brave young lady that is trying to find her place and make her way in the world when everything unexpectedly goes awry.Īfter a series of interesting short works and anthologies, van den Berg brings readers a debut story that you can really sink your teeth into. In 2016, it made the long list for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Van den Berg has been a finalist for a short story award, received an award for her second collection of stories, won the Bard Fiction Prize and the Rosenthal Award for Fiction, and received a number of accolades, positive reviews, and fans in the process.įind Me was her first full=length fiction novel. She has also been featured in a number of anthologies and collections and has collaborated with other authors on novels too. She has not only published two collections of stories but full-length fictional novels. She was born and raised in Orlando, Florida and currently resides in the Boston area. Laura van den Berg is an American author of fiction.
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