In 1980s America, a deadly pandemic has gripped the country. Medicine to stop the virus is so rare that those who want it must have someone in their lives willing to make a huge sacrifice. Enter Polly ...

Thea Lim is a Singaporean-Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was the nonfiction editor for the Gulf Coast. Over the years, she has received artists' grants from the Canada Council for the ...

America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a radical ...

SINGAPORE - A Singaporean writer has made the shortlist for a prestigious Canadian literary award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Thea Lim, a Toronto-based novelist, is one of five authors in the ...

In the age of widespread refugee crises, weather events, data mining, corporate greed and totalitarian politics, dystopian narratives are very much on the brain. Toronto writer Thea Lim taps into this ...

Toronto resident Thea Lim’s debut novel is a dystopian time-travel story that defies genre conventions by concentrating on the interpersonal consequences of its plot. But somewhere along the line the ...

TORONTO — When Toronto-based author Thea Lim travels back to Singapore, she finds the place where she grew up no longer exists, at least not to her. Of course, she still can visit the geographic ...

Thea Lim’s beautiful debut novel, An Ocean Of Minutes ($24.95, Viking), is a deep dive into personal longing, political turmoil and time travel. Frank and Polly are in love in Buffalo circa 1981.

Brazos Bookstore will present author Thea Lim, who will discuss her debut novel, An Ocean of Minutes, with Jessica Wilbanks. In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Station Eleven, An Ocean of ...

Thea Lim is the author of An Ocean of Minutes, which was short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Guardian, Guernica, and elsewhere.