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"In this astonishing, assured first novel Eugene Lim intertwines elegant poetics with a fantastic plot, rife with love, mystery, malaise, and the supernatural. His gift for ingenious, startling permutations of language and plot make for a memorable, mesmerizing read. It was hard for me to put Fog & Car down; harder for me to stop thinking about." -Lynn Crawford * * * "The events of this novel take place in a space contrary to action, illuminating the silences of the page and the nothing that haunts the borders of 'doing something.' A beautifully paced and thoughtful work." -Renee Gladman * * * "In Fog & Car Eugene Lim scalpels deep into the loneliness of coupledom, into divorce, into obsession and stalking, into casual hookups, into homoerotic shocks. The book slowly heats its duos until they come to a rolling boil, blistering out surprises and unexpected complexities. Mr. Lim is definitely a writer to watch." -Steve Katz * * * "In Fog & Car, Eugene Lim renders the uncanny convergences of the lives of partners and strangers in a language entirely new. This is a deep, engulfing novel of breathtaking, even spooking precision-an altogether heady and heart-shaking debut." -Gary Lutz * * * 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.

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