Elio’s chapter is the strongest of these first three, charting his relationship with a much older man that he meets at a chamber music concert. In Oliver’s part, the once-headstrong academic is presented as bumbling, somewhat creepily inviting two of his crushes (one man, one woman) to his going-away party, where his wife is also present. Perlman’s chance meeting with a much younger woman on a subway car, in which he intrusively asks her, “Why so glum?” Instead of being turned off, she eventually invites him to her dad’s house for a meal and they end up settling down together. But while the central romance in Call Me By Your Name is gradually built up over the course of a couple hundred pages, the quasi-short story format of Find Me makes these narratives seem rushed, in a way that is almost prurient.įind Me begins with Mr. Aciman is still primarily interested in the unpredictability of love. Each takes place in a different time period and tells an individual story about that given character. Perlman, then Elio himself, then from Oliver, and finally Elio again. Unlike Call Me By Your Name, which is told entirely from Elio’s perspective, Find Me, which is split into four parts, is told from the perspective of three different characters: first from Mr.
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