5/13/2023 0 Comments Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim![]() “ Search History is a luminous, peerless work that establishes Lim as one of the best-suited authors to write about our distinct moment of environmental decay amidst technological advancement,” writes Meghana Kandlur. Often simultaneously hilarious and devastating, Search History is an adventure story that offers profound insight into grief and grieving in the contemporary era. In the ensuing sections, the novel continues to fall down such unexpected rabbit holes, but at the heart of the story is a madcap search for a dog who is believed to be the reincarnation of a dead friend. In the prologue alone, two characters topple through a series of disparate reincarnations: They attend an opening at a gallery, then suddenly they are workers in a cellphone factory, then pieces of debris in the Atlantic Ocean. ![]() To read Search History is to fall through a series of trap doors. This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Eugene Lim, whose latest novel, Search History, is out today from Coffee House Press. ![]()
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