In this Green Apple Books event, Catherine Lacey talks about the breakup that led to her writing The Möbius Book (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025) and her decision to combine nonfiction and fiction into this hybrid book in a conversation with Rita Bullwinkel. “It’s a different kind of grief,” says Lacey. “It’s not just the sadness of missing someone, but it’s also the sadness of missing yourself.”
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