Thea Lim

Thea Lim's novelAn Ocean of Minutesis on the Canada Reads 2019 longlist. The final five books and the panellists defending them will be revealed on Jan. 31, 2019.

The 2019 debates are happening on March 25-28, 2019 and will be hosted by Ali Hassan.

• 15 books make the Canada Reads 2019 longlist

More about Thea Lim

Thea Limis a Singaporean-Canadiannovelist and short story writer.She was thenonfiction editor for theGulf Coast. Over the years, she has received artists' grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Her work has been published in various publications, including the Guardian, Salon and Grist.

In 2018,Limreleased her debut, a speculative fiction novel entitledAn Ocean of Minutes. She also wrote a novella calledThe Same Womanin 2007.

An Ocean of Minuteswas on the shortlist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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Why Thea Lim loves science fiction

"I love alternate worlds. Science fiction is a useful and fruitful genre. It gives us the ability to talk about things that feel otherworldly and arebeyond language, like contradictions that are deeply humanbut escape common expression how we miss homelands we've never been to or feel a sense of loss towardthings before they're gone.

Being able to set stories in other worlds and places enables us to amplify those situations and explore them.- Thea Lim

"These are things that don't make logical sense but are such a huge part of our world. Being able to set stories in other worlds and places enables us to amplify those situations and explore them."

Read more of Thea Lim's interview with CBC Books.

Books by Thea Lim

Interviews

'How is it we are able to love so recklesslessly?' Thea Lim ponders in An Ocean of Minutes

6 years ago

Duration 1:05

The first-time Giller finalist explores the human ability to love despite impermanence, heartbreak and loss.