A review by laurennoel
Find Me by André Aciman

4.0

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I actually really liked Find Me as a book in an of itself. As a sequel it's pretty eh, and when I first heard a general outline I was iffy - the beginning with the father and the young girl and them eventually having a child together was weird, and personally I would not have minded if Elio and Oliver never found their way back to each other. But Aciman's redeeming points are his ideas and the philosophy he slips into his writing. I loved the portion of the book where the father is at the girls place and her father is there, and they're talking about the idea of parallel lives. And then later on the discussion between Elio and his lover and the idea of some of us being dealt certain cards in life that may not be completed by us, but by future generations (and if any of these aren't the correct scenes I'm thinking, it's been a year since I touched this book, so I'm going off of memory.) Everything in this book is connected in some subtle way, so while the general plot and outcome is not my favorite, Aciman's writing makes this book a worthwhile read. I would just go into it with an open mind and maybe try to appreciate it as something separate from Call Me By Your Name.