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NamedĀ Vogueās āBest Books to Read This Summerā āĀ The MillionsĀ āMost Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2021 Book Previewā
āA shimmering, dreamlike experience of multiple lives that collide and repel through fate and coincidence.ā āLydia Kiesling, author ofĀ The Golden State
A luminous literary debut following two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives.
Lucien moves to Los Angeles to be with his grandmother as she undergoes an experimental memory treatment for Alzheimerās using the new drug, Memoroxin. An emerging photographer, heās also running from the sudden death of his mother, a well-known artist whose legacy haunts Lucien.
Sophie has just landed the lead in the upcoming performance of La Sylphide with the Los Angeles Ballet Company. She still waitresses at the Chateau Marmont during her off hours, witnessing the recreational use of Memoroxināor Memāamong the Hollywood elite.
When Lucien and Sophie meet at The Center, founded by the ambitious yet conflicted Dr. Angelica Sloane to treat patients whoāve abused Mem, they have no memory of how they got thereāor why they feel so inexplicably drawn to each other. Is it attraction, or something they cannot remember from ābeforeā?
Set in a city that seems to have no identity of its own,Ā The Shimmering StateĀ is a graceful meditation on the power of story and its creation. It masterfully explores memory and how it can elude us, trap us, or set us free.
About the Author
Meredith Westgate grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. The Shimmering State is her first novel. Visit her at MeredithWestgate.com and on Instagram @MeredithWestgate.
Release Date: 10 Aug 2021
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