Find Me (Aciman) - Book Reviews

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[Find Me] is a lyrical meditation on being forced to move to another location after the party’s over, on the Sisyphean task of trying to replicate the magic of young passion…. [I]t strikes an affectingly melancholy chord.
Josh Duboff - New York Times Book Review


Aciman’s quiet, label-free presentation of bisexual life represents a minor triumph…. Likewise, his refusal to offer easy resolution, which infuses the whole romantic enterprise with a kind of delicious melancholy. There are moments, particularly in the final chapter, that may have readers gazing tearfully into their fireplaces, real or imaginary, just like Timothee Chalamet at the end of Luca Guadagnino’s superlative film of Call Me by Your Name.
Charles Arrowsmith - Washington Post


Aciman writes about desire with blunt honesty, describing erotic and emotional interactions with equal clarity. Sex can be tender or not, the connection lasting or ephemeral, but it is almost always multilayered and complex.
Clea Simon - Boston Globe


With all of the richly painted details, emotional nuance, and deeply affecting romance as the first installment, this book will draw you in and make you believe in love again.
Good Housekeeping


The elegant sequel to Aciman’s celebrated first novel, Call Me by Your Name, revisits his best-known characters some 20 years later.… The novel again demonstrates Aciman’s capacity to fuse the sensual and the cerebral in stories that touch the heart.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review)  Aciman's incandescent sequel to the acclaimed Call Me by Your Name.… [Find Me is] a beautiful 21st-century romance that reflects on the remembrance of things past and the courage to embrace the future. Highly recommended. —Sally Bissell, formerly with Lee Cty. Lib. Syst., Fort Myers, FL
Library Journal


(Starred review) Call Me By Your Name was widely praised for its treatment of the nature of love, a theme that Find Me continues with subtlety and grace. Its treatment of the characters' psychology is astute and insightful… [Will the] star-crossed lovers reunite…. One can only hope.
Booklist


Aciman blends assuredly mature themes with deep learning… and his story is touching without being sentimental even if some of it is too neatly inevitable. An elegant, memorable story of enduring love across the generations.
Kirkus Reviews