Book Club: The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey

Join a new season of encounters around the latest works of contemporary fiction, in the company of other avid readers and our host Eleonora Balsano.

The Möbius Book is a genre-bending story about breaking. 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. She soon realized that she was writing about her relationship with faith. Through relationships, travel, reading and memories of her religious fanaticism, Lacey charts the contours of faith’s absence and re-emergence. A hybrid work across fiction and nonfiction, The Möbius Book troubles the line between memory and fiction with an openhearted defense of faith’s inherent danger.