The Möbius Book

"Another very eagerly awaited book is Catherine Lacey’s The Möbius Book , although this is, technically, neither quite fiction nor nonfiction. Following a devastating break-up, the author deconstructs her relationships, as well as her memories of religious fanaticism and disordered eating in her youth—partly in the form of memoir and partly as a fictional retelling, the text of each being presented upside down beside its twin, so that when you reach the end of the book you flip it over and keep going—and so on, forever. Out mid-June on both sides of the Atlantic. (Previously, I spoke to Lacey about the best counterfactual novels while she was promoting Biography of X , a thrillingly inventive fictional biography of a female artist set in a near-future America after a devastating civil war has split the country in three.) And if you are interested in novels that play around with form, you might also be interested in Emily Adrian’s Seduction Theory , a sharp, gossipy campus novel about two married literature professors grappling with romantic temptation in the workplace. It sounds like a lot of fun to me. Released 12 August."