What Brooklyn author Meredith Westgate’s evocative novel does not let us forget
"The Shimmering State" comes out in paperback August 16.
Today we can keep up with thousands of people a minute on social media, use virtual reality technology to transport ourselves anywhere in the world, and yet we can never truly experience someone else’s life. In Meredith Westgate’s novel “The Shimmering State,” Westgate introduces a pill, Memoroxin, that let’s individuals do just that: with one shiny pill, someone else’s memories will become your own.
Brooklyn author Westgate’s novel “The Shimmering State” dives into the world of memory and emerges with a dazzling tale of love, loss and forgetting. “The Shimmering State” is the story of the colliding lives of Lucien, a photographer, and Sophie, a dancer, as they battle addiction to Memoroxin and find themselves at The Center to recover.
The Brooklyn Eagle sat down with Westgate to talk Brooklyn vs. Los Angeles, the power of perspective and film possibilities for the novel. “The Shimmering State” comes out in paperback on August 16th.
Find the podcast of the interview here.