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Author Westgate, Meredith, author.

Title The shimmering state : a novel / Meredith Westgate.

Publication Info. New York : Atria Books, 2021.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F WESTGATE, M.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION WESTGATE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  WESTGATE, MEREDITH    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC WESTGATE, M    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F WESTGATE, M.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F WESTGATE, MEREDITH    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Science Fiction  SFF WESTGATE MEREDITH    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Science Fiction  SFF WESTGATE MEREDITH    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC WESTGATE    Check Shelf
Edition First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Description 306 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "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 Alzheimer's using a new drug, Memoroxin. An emerging photographer, he's also running from the sudden death of his mother, a well-known artist whose legacy haunts him even far from New York. Sophie has just landed the lead in the upcoming performance of La Sylphide with the Los Angeles Ballet. She still waitresses during her off-hours at the Chateau Marmont, witnessing the recreational use of Memoroxin-or Mem-among the Hollywood elite. When Lucien and Sophie meet at the Center, founded by the ambitious yet conflicted Dr. Angelica Sloane to treat patients who've abused Mem, they have no memory of how they got there-or why they feel so inexplicably drawn to one another. Is it attraction, or something they cannot remember from "before"? Set in a city that seems to have no memory of its own, The Shimmering State 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 even set us free"-- Provided by publisher.
Language In English.
Subject Memory -- Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Dystopian.
Memory. (OCoLC)fst01015913
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Dystopias.
Dystopian fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9781982156718 (hardcover)
1982156716 (hardcover)
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