![]() Aciman avoids this slump deftly, paying homage to the characters he created whilst serenading the reader through their journeys of growth-as human and flawed as these may be. It is even more difficult, I imagine, when said book has since been turned into a blockbuster film that catapulted current teen heartthrob Timothée Chalamet to stardom. ![]() It is difficult to avoid a sophomore slump when the book you wrote has become canon for anyone who is either gay or believes in love in countries the world over. ![]() What results is a story about time and how we watch it move endlessly forward and forward, while certain things stick with us and many memories don’t. Set decades after the ending of the first installment, we again find ourselves with Samuel, an illustrious but bumbling and lonely academic Elio, Samuel’s son and a talented and dreamily idealistic pianist and Oliver, the man with whom Elio had an affair, who has since developed his own brand of charismatic academic-cum-family man. ![]() When we grow up, where do we go? This is the question running through the heart of Find Me, Andre Aciman’s long-awaited sequel to his 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name. ![]()
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