FICTION/MEMOIR

The Möbius Book

Catherine Lacey

Granta, $36.99

The best book I’ve read this year crept up unannounced. I was just going about my life – and boom , there it was. No introduction. No witchy presentiment. Not even an earth tremor.

Having finished Catherine Lacey’s new novel, I find my world changed. Enlarged, a little. It is inside of me now. Once a good book does that, you can’t go back.

The Mo bius Book is composed of two parts. One is fiction, the other is memoir. The reader can choose either entrance. Each half refracts the themes and subjects of its neighbour. Strange correspondences and seemingly incidental connections appear across the two parts: a climactic event at sea. Broken teacups. Violent partners. The effect is akin to telling a story and realising, on

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