Find Me

André Aciman is the best-selling author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, including the modern classic Call Me by Your Name (2007), which was adapted into the Academy Award–winning 2017 film of the same name. Find Me is a sequel to Call Me by Your Name but stands on its own. Split into four parts, Find Me explores the power of romantic connections between characters of varying ages and situations. The rotating points of view express that true love and desire are universal and inherently human experiences. Aciman’s philosophical and romantic novel considers the influence of time on the individual.

This study guide refers to the 2020 Macmillan edition.

Plot Summary

In Part 1, “Tempo,” Samuel Perlman takes a train to Rome to visit his adult son Elio, a pianist. Samuel is a divorced classics scholar who feels his life’s best moments are behind him. He is taken by a young, beautiful woman who sits across from him on the train. They strike up a conversation and quickly find an intimate banter. They seem to understand one another in mysterious ways but are ultimately still strangers. When the train arrives in Rome, the woman,

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