{"product_id":"the-mbius-book-9780374615406","title":"The M?bius Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A singular, bewitching work about cycles of life and loss, the patterns of behavior that seem to lock us into who we are, and the quest for a faith that might break us free.\" --Hua Hsu, author of \u003ci\u003eStay True\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA genre-bending story about breaking―both of the heart and form itself―from the author of \u003ci\u003eBiography of X\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdrift in the winter of 2021 after a sudden breakup and the ensuing depression, the novelist Catherine Lacey began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of her friendships, a practice that eventually propagated fiction both entirely imagined and strangely true. Betrayed by the mercurial partner she had trusted with a shared mortgage and suddenly catapulted into the unknown, Lacey's appetite vanished completely, a visceral reminder of the teenage emaciation that came when she stopped believing in God. Through relationships, travel, reading, and memories of her religious fanaticism, Lacey charts the contours of faith's absence and reemergence. Bending form, she and her characters recall gnostic experiences with animals, close encounters with male anger, griefdriven lust, and the redemptive power of platonic love and narrative itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA hybrid work across fiction and nonfiction with no beginning or ending, \u003ci\u003eThe M?bius Book \u003c\/i\u003etroubles the line between memory and fiction with an openhearted defense of faith's inherent danger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374615406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catherine Lacey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45316499374261,"sku":"9780374615406","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f41dc9ab-da50-4751-80d2-ebc9a6f9ff54.jpg?v=1745331534","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-mbius-book-9780374615406","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}