Thea Lim

Thea Lim grew up in Singapore and currently lives in Toronto, Canada. She graduated from the University of Houston with an MFA in Fiction, and her writing has been published in publications like the Southhampton Review, the Guardian, The Millions, Salon, and others. She has received multiple awards and fellowships for her work, including artists’ grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Her novella The Same Woman was published in 2007; An Ocean of Minutes is her first novel. For more information, please visit www.thealim.org.

August Fiction: Excerpt from AN OCEAN OF MINUTES by Thea Lim

Thea Lim - August 7, 2018

For August, we're pleased to give you a look into Thea Lim's debut novel, An Ocean of Minutes, out now from Touchstone. Set in a world where a devastating pandemic has citizens working in the future to offset treatment payments, the novel follows the journey of Polly, a young woman who travels to the future in order to save her partner, Frank, who has contracted this disease. It's a beautiful story of longing, time, migration and class, and we hope you'll enjoy this excerpt.

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