PositivePaste Magazine\'Who\' is often the motivating question in her work and her plots catch characters in the act of reconsidering their identities ... The epidemic sounds an apocalyptic note that rings throughout the novel, but the genre tropes linking Find Me to The Walking Dead, or to recent literary dystopias like Station Eleven, are ultimately subsumed by Joy’s driving need to find a place in the world ... At times, van den Berg slyly employs the genre to comment on our cultural fascination with cataclysm ... The most invigorating aspect of Find Me is the tenacity with which its author pursues her staple obsessions. Rather than retreat into convention to shore up her first foray into the novel form, van den Berg sticks to her guns and lets her idiosyncrasies off the tether ... For better and sometimes worse, abstraction haunts this novel. People live apart from one another; they are often granted one or two distinguishing quirks; they speak in vague, ethereal dialogue ... For the most part, though, Van den Berg’s prose is heartfelt, light of touch and wryly funny.
