Lacey 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.
Playful and quite ambitious ... Excruciating and occasionally poignant detail ... By allowing both fiction and nonfiction to flirt with the unreal, Lacey demonstrates that they share the same ambition—the pursuit of truth—and suggests that our understanding of truth might need to expand to account for the strangeness and wildness of our lives.
Deeply serious and engrossingly playful, and it lavishly rewards serious, playful attention ... The questions are constant, implicit, teasing, elaborated rather than answered in the dark mirror of life writing.
