Eugene Lim

EUGENE LIM'S WRY AND HAUNTING DEBUT NOVEL RETURNS TO SHELVES WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM RENEE GLADMAN Eugene Lim uses wry humor, ingenious poetics, and supernatural puzzles to follow the strings that connect two lives. Reconciling life after divorce, Jim secludes himself in the Midwest, living in an aimless nostalgia, while Sarah runs headfirst through New York in an attempt to bypass the grief of her dissolved marriage. Mystically connected by an old friend and the effects of his actions, they both attempt to chase him down—the resulting unexplained coincidences, cryptic fortunes blur the lines between reality and the supernatural. Intertwined by their past, Jim and Sarah’s lives become entangled in a moving mystery of loss, grief, and the loneliness of the human condition. PRAISE FOR FOG & CAR Literary Hub, "Most Anticipated Books of 2024" Bookshop “100 Most Anticipated Books of 2024” Reactor, "Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2024" "Fans of Dear Cyborgs and Search History will be delighted to see the genesis of Lim’s searching and curious style." —Literary Hub “Fog & Car’s tale of the aftermath of a divorce, in which its characters’ lives grow increasingly bizarre, demonstrates Lim’s skill at evoking the quotidian and the evocative.” —Tobias Carroll, Reactor "No one is writing like Lim. If anything, Lim forces us to articulate how we ask questions of the world—inside and outside literature. How does anyone act in retaliation or defense? How does anyone appraise and evaluate anything at all? How does one live inside this impasse?” —Shinjini Dey, Cleveland Review of Books "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