Fog & Car

"Praise for Fog & Car ""Eugene Lim intertwines elegant poetics with a fantastic plot, rife with love, mystery, malaise, and the supernatural. His gift for ingenious, startling permutations of language and plot make for a memorable, mesmerizing read. It was hard for me to put Fog & Car down; harder for me to stop thinking about."" --Lynn Crawford ""The events of this novel take place in a space contrary to action, illuminating the silences of the page and the nothing that haunts the borders of 'doing something.' A beautifully paced and thoughtful work."" --Renee Gladman ""In Fog & Car, Eugene Lim scalpels deep into the loneliness of coupledom, into divorce, into obsession and stalking, into casual hookups, into homoerotic shocks. The book slowly heats its duos until they come to a rolling boil, blistering out surprises and unexpected complexities."" --Steve Katz ""Eugene Lim's impressive debut novel . . . has the shape of a long turnpike that runs into an urban snarl of on and off ramps. Suddenly every incidental thread of the early, gently paced narrative knots up into a supernatural tangle of a plot--souls are exchanged, coincidences multiply . . . To defy novelistic conventions is easy enough. The difficulty comes in custom-building new forms for a story, and new stories for these new forms. Suiting the action to the word and the word to the action is no easy feat, but it is one that Lim has achieved with his first tragicomic novel."" --The Brooklyn Rail ""Lim peels relentlessly at his story's realism until it tugs loose, revealing much stranger happenings underneath . . . a disturbing mystery pitched somewhere between Mulholland Drive and City of Glass . . . [I]t never loses its appealing initial tone of aching loneliness, even as its characters and its goings-on grow increasingly supernatural.""--Review of Contemporary Fiction Past Praise: Praise for Search History Literary Hub, ""Most Anticipated Books of 2021"" The Millions, ""Most Anticipated of 2021"" Literary Hub, ""22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall"" Bustle, ""Best Books of October 2021"" ""A post-human manifesto on loss, identity, and the transfigurative potential of art. . . . This brilliant sui generis takes storytelling to new heights."" --Publisher's Weekly, starred review ""As befits a book dealing with death and rebirth, the novel oscillates between the uncanny and the philosophical. . . . Lim brings together the mundane and the extraordinary to powerful effect."" --Kirkus, starred review ""Fans of Haruki Murakami's melancholy, oneiric tales will also delight in Lim's assault upon consensus reality. He encourages the reader to 'stop making sense, ' in the Talking Heads manner, and experience the universe as a magical tapestry of events whose overall pattern is perceivable only by God--or maybe after one's own death."" --Paul Di Filippo, The Washington Post ""Sometimes new works arrive, such as Eugene Lim's strange, sinuous, highly memorable novel Search History that seem to herald some dawning technological epoch. . . . A work of eerie and lasting power."" --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal Praise for Dear Cyborgs Vol. 1 Brooklyn, ""Favorite Fiction Books of 2017"" Literary Hub, ""Staff Favorite Books 2017"" ""Wondrous . . . [A] sense of the erratic and tangential quality of everyday life--even if it's displaced into a bizarre, parallel world--drifts off the page, into the world you see, after reading Dear Cyborgs."" --Hua Hsu, The New Yorker"