This brilliant sui generis takes storytelling to new heights.” “A post-human manifesto on loss, identity, and the transfigurative potential of art.

Jacob Wren’s A Radical Cut in the Texture of Reality, 2021 Favoritesīig Other, Winner of Big Other’s 2021 Award for FictionĪAAS, Association of Asian American Studies 2023 Book Award Literary Hub, “Novels You Need to Read This Fall”Įntropy, “ 2020-2021: Best Fiction Books”ĭennis Cooper’s blog, “ Mine for Yours, 2021 Favorites” In elliptical, propulsive prose, Search History plumbs the depths of personal and collective consciousness, questioning what we consume, how we grieve, and the stories we tell ourselves. Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim deconstructs grieving and storytelling with uncanny juxtapositions and subversive satire.įrank Exit is dead-or is he? While eavesdropping on two women discussing a dog-sitting gig over lunch, a bereft friend comes to a shocking realization: Frank has been reincarnated as a dog! This epiphany launches a series of adventures-interlaced with digressions about AI-generated fiction, virtual reality, Asian American identity in the arts, and lost parents-as an unlikely cast of accomplices and enemies pursues the mysterious canine. ISBN: 978-1-56689-617-7 | Coffee House Press Order from Coffee House Press, Bookshop, or your local independent bookstore.

Dear cyborgs by eugene lim