PositiveThe NationLacey offers us an experiment in form but also in ideas ... Part of the magic of The Möbius Book is that new metaphors and meanings emerge and come into focus as one reads its two different parts ... While Lacey sets out to write both fiction and memoir tinged with universalisms, she resists combining the two genres explicitly; each has its own separate place in the work ... Catherine Lacey is much more interested in the questions than the answers, and so the circular nature of The Möbius Book seems fitting.
Emily Witt
RaveThe New RepublicAn entertaining, provocative, first-person reported book about the subcultures surrounding a recreational activity ... A book concerned with how people express their political frustration ... Does not attempt to define stability, health, or safety. Rather the book is about striving for all those states of being in a tumultuous, difficult, and violent period.
Lauren Oyler
PositiveThe NationIf you are a person who spends an inordinate amount of time reading articles you found through X (né Twitter), you will likely be familiar with many, if not all, of Oyler’s reference points ... One begins to wonder if the Internet might not necessarily be such a bad thing ... Turned out to be something not so negative after all.
