Catherine Lacey Had a Really Bad Breakup. But That Was Just the Beginning

Catherine Lacey’s Infinite Regress

The novelist on her unclassifiable new work, “The Möbius Book”; the limits of autobiography; and the appeal of multiplicity.

Catherine Lacey Had a Really Bad Breakup. But That Was Just the Beginning

The author talks losing faith, writing sex, and the makings of The Möbius Book, her part-memoir, part-novella exploration of the pain and joy of change.

Book review of The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey’s novella-memoir hybrid invites readers to consider life as a Mobius strip, in which fiction and autobiography echo each other across pages and time.