Eugene Lim

"A genre-bending novel told through the witty dialogues of three superheroes in their down time discussing their origin stories and moments of protest against body and state, ultimately weaving an intimate path through notions of art, money, resistance, and friendship"--

A Novel

Dear Cyborgs

In Search History, an outlandish zany cyberdog chase orbits lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim explores grief and mortality with his characteristic blend of philosophical yearning and satirical humor. Frank Exit is dead. But while eavesdropping on two women discussing a dog-sitting gig over lunch, a friend of Frank's comes to a shocking realization: the very same dog is Frank himself, reincarnated. This epiphany launches a series of digressions and adventures, interlacing fragments of party gossip, AI-generated fiction, theoretical shaggy dog stories, and the artistic lineage of Asian American entertainers as an unlikely cast of accomplices and enemies pursues the mysterious canine. In elliptical yet propulsive prose, Search History plumbs the depths of personal and collective consciousness, questioning what we consume, how we grieve, and who we think we are.

Search History

Paul Kavanagh

Ennio Flaiano

Patty Yumi Cottrell

Brad Baumgartner

Pierre Senges

Berit Ellingsen

Adam McOmber

Friederike Mayröcker

Adam Golaski

Donald Breckenridge

Adam Lovasz

Meghan Lamb

John Trefry

Evan Lavender-Smith

Ashley David

Daniel James Fraser

Elliott Niblock

Frank Garrett

Haley Hemenway Sledge

Ian Dreiblatt

Iris Moulton

K. Thomas Kahn

Lital Khaikin

Helmut Dosantos

Jesse Kohn

Matt Trease

Boredom As a Luxury: Ennui

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What We Have Learned, What We Will Forget, What We Will Not Be Able to Forget

Succumbing to purposelessness and nostalgia, Jim Fog is marooned in a small Midwest town shortly after his divorce. His ex, Sarah Car has moved to New York City with the ambition of skipping over any mourning for their marriage. Eventually this symbolic dialectic collapses, and the narrative's shifting styles find their stunning equilibrium in a troubled and subversive escapism.

Fog & Car

Fiction. Asian American Studies. "Beautifully written, so precise and accurate to real life that it is (fantastically) convincing, Eugene Lim's THE STRANGERS, with its multiple interwoven strands, reveals one surprising character and relationship after the next, and culminates in a skillfully devised and satisfying resolution. A fascinating and engrossing tale." Lydia Davis "What an astonishing book Beautiful, original, with delicious surprises lurking at the heart of sentences, of events, of all the engines of communication." Harry Mathews "THE STRANGERS is like a cabinet of curiosities put together by Georges Perec and Andrei Biely, hilarious and utterly seductive, a sharp commentary on the social and political architecture we cling to at our peril. And yet, while pulling the rug out from under the reader, Eugene Lim's book is a total pleasure." Susan Daitch "To place the storytelling act at the center of a novel is a risky strategy: the stories must fascinate. Lim's stories do (except those few that he deliberately effaces as if to give a graphic representation of self-erasure). They have the exoticism, emotional authenticity, and intellectual depth to ensure that the reader will be enthralled." Review of Contemporary Fiction"

Concerning the Moribund Language of Oona and Oon, the Spukhafte Fernwirkung of Noon and Noona, and the Mysterious Library-ship of Henry and the Captain : Describing Objects and Events from Typical Lives of Its Period and Place and Giving an Account of how Certain of Its Heroines, Stand-up Artists, and Filmmakers Were Deliver'd from Tyranny, Abduction, and Divorce

The Strangers

Eugene Lim

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