"A singular, bewitching work about cycles of life and loss, the patterns of behavior that seem to lock us into who we are, and the quest for a faith that might break us free." —Hua Hsu, author of Stay True Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by Vulture and LitHub A genre-bending story about breaking―both of the heart and form itself―from the author of Biography of X. Adrift in the winter of 2021 after a sudden breakup and the ensuing depression, the novelist Catherine Lacey began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of her friendships, a practice that eventually propagated fiction both entirely imagined and strangely true. Betrayed by the mercurial partner she had trusted with a shared mortgage and suddenly catapulted into the unknown, Lacey’s appetite vanished completely, a visceral reminder of the teenage emaciation that came when she stopped believing in God. Through relationships, travel, reading, and memories of her religious fanaticism, Lacey charts the contours of faith’s absence and reemergence. Bending form, she and her characters recall gnostic experiences with animals, close encounters with male anger, griefdriven lust, and the redemptive power of platonic love and narrative itself. A hybrid work across fiction and nonfiction with no beginning or ending, The Möbius Book troubles the line between memory and fiction with an openhearted defense of faith’s inherent danger.

キャサリン・レイシーが紡ぐ本作は、喪失と再生が表裏一体となったメビウスの輪のような構造で読者の魂を揺さぶります。信仰の崩壊と個人的な破局を重ね、繰り返される人間の業を解剖する筆致は、もはや文学の枠を超えた一種の祈りのようです。事実と虚構が混じり合う危うい境界線こそが、本作の持つ本質的な魅力に他なりません。 自己を縛る連鎖からいかに自由を勝ち取るか。その答えを求める思索の旅はあまりに美しく、残酷です。既存の形式を破壊し、愛や信仰の持つ危うい救済力を追体験させる唯一無二の物語。この記憶の迷宮を抜けたとき、あなたの世界の見え方は、きっと決定的に変わっているはずです。