Named Vogue \'s "Best Books to Read This Summer" ∙ The Millions "Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2021 Book Preview" "A shimmering, dreamlike experience of multiple lives that collide and repel through fate and coincidence." --Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State A luminous literary debut following two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives.
Visit her at MeredithWestgate.com and on Instagram @MeredithWestgate..
The Shimmering State is her first novel.
She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School.
About author(s): Meredith Westgate grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
It masterfully explores memory and how it can elude us, trap us, or set us free.
Is it attraction, or something they cannot remember from "before"? Set in a city that seems to have no identity of its own, The Shimmering State is a graceful meditation on the power of story and its creation.
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 each other.
When Lucien and Sophie meet at The Center, founded by the ambitious yet conflicted Dr.
She still waitresses at the Chateau Marmont during her off hours, witnessing the recreational use of Memoroxin--or Mem--among the Hollywood elite.
Sophie has just landed the lead in the upcoming performance of La Sylphide with the Los Angeles Ballet Company.
An emerging photographer, he\'s also running from the sudden death of his mother, a well-known artist whose legacy haunts Lucien.
Lucien moves to Los Angeles to be with his grandmother as she undergoes an experimental memory treatment for Alzheimer\'s using the new drug, Memoroxin.
Named Vogue \'s "Best Books to Read This Summer" ∙ The Millions "Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2021 Book Preview" "A shimmering, dreamlike experience of multiple lives that collide and repel through fate and coincidence." --Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State A luminous literary debut following two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives
