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Do Not Find Me

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As a young man, Gigi Paulo arrives in New York and is immediately drawn to a girl he sees in a bar near Penn Station. Before he can approach her, she is gone. He returns to the bar for weeks, hoping to see her again, dreams of her at night and searches the crowds for her face. Quiet and careful, he is not the type to become obsessed by a stranger. But obsessed he is.

Two years later he meets her at a party. Her name is Corrine. She seems to like his cooking and the blues albums he collects, but she never stays with him for long. As he discovers the secrets and violence of her life, Gigi finds himself unable to rescue her and barely able to save himself. He flees New York, but his obsession with Corrine follows him, even when he returns to his home in northern Minnesota, where he marries, has a daughter, and fishes the deep, quiet lakes he knows so well.

After he dies, his daughter uncovers her father's desire for this unknown woman, leaving her to question the inherent perils of his life as well as her own. Dark and poetic, Do Not Find Me moves between the voices of Gigi Paulo and his daughter with a compelling grace, its haunting undercurrents remaining long after the story has ended.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 25, 2016
      As this deeply felt contemporary novel opens, Meggie is going through the effects of her recently deceased father, who raised her single-handedly since the untimely death of her mother. Among her father's effects, she finds an old envelope containing a scrap of paper with the enigmatic scrawl "Do not find me," a tantalizing clue to a part of her father's life about which she knows nothing. Her attempts to glean more information from her father's relatives and friends prove fruitless, but readers soon hear at length, in her father's own voice, about the long, tempestuous relationship he had with a woman in New York before settling down in Minnesota and marrying Meggie's mother. The chapters alternate between Meggie's voice and her father's, and it is in the former that Novak's writing is at its most textured and incisive, revealing Meggie's psyche as she re-evaluates her life as a daughter and as a wife in a loveless and remote marriage. By contrast, the story of Meggie's father in New York, though more eventful, is less surely told and, much like Meggie, the reader is likely to find him ultimately unknowable. Nevertheless, Novak's engaging story and elegant prose make for a worthwhile read.

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