MEETING WITH CATHERINE LACEY

Catherine Lacey, one of the boldest voices in contemporary American fiction, is coming to Bologna to take the audience on a journey through her literary universe, which, with ruthless clarity and a feminist perspective, challenges the constraints of gender, identity, the body and power. Her work ranges from the intimate world of Pew, the story of a genderless person and their relationship with the small community that welcomes them, to the acclaimed Biography of X – a fictional queer biography that subverts patriarchal historiography – and her latest book, The Möbius Book. With its two covers and two possible starting points, The Möbius Book invites readers on a fluid journey: whichever way you enter the story, Lacey knows how to turn an existential crisis into an exhilarating adventure in which you are never alone.