The drama of the memoir side is most palpable in the moments when these purgings happen without conscious effort or warning ... The fiction, likewise, is deepened and intensified upon rereading...when we are compelled to imagine Lacey writing the text and arriving at such moments of spontaneous insight ... This demand that we grasp the text not just as a written thing...but also as a writing, as the product of a writer struggling with her material...is Lacey’s great breakthrough.
Readers should begin with the memoir: It is both better and makes better sense of the fictional part ... ... Apt ... For all its delightful circularity, The Möbius Book does approach a terminus of sorts.
The Möbius Book does not reject the idea of fiction so much as demonstrate how fiction and nonfiction are in constant dialogue, how each is never entirely what it says it is. ... It is equally a moving documentary of personal loss, a meditation on the fragility of identity and a critique of the struggle women still face in being heard.
