Loop

“There’s a sense of porous boundaries between the main character’s internal reality and what she can see. There’s all this marvelous slippage. I suppose it’s counterfactual in that it’s a book that’s not content entirely with factual reality. It is an absolute delight. The main thing I read for is the voice of a story— not the plot or the setting or even the attributes of the character aside from the way they speak. You should choose this book if you want to spend some time in the company of a voice that feels like a very good, old friend of yours taking you on a nonlinear tour of the way she writes in between her life and everything she’s ever read.” Read more...

The Best Counterfactual Novels

Catherine Lacey, Novelist