Maude Edith Eaton here is also not an author, although in real life, Otono (born Winnifred Eaton) and Maude (famous as Sui Sin Far) were Chinese British American sister writers. Book.” Their dysthymic AI scientist-creator, who’s also a Stanford-educated community college adjunct recently relegated to house sitting, is “aiming for a Pulitzer or an NBA shortlist but willing to settle for a PEN/Faulkner.” And yet, a robot named César Aira is not a writer, neither is his ex-wife, Onoto Watanna. Interwoven into this elusive quest are ruminations on the literary – as compiled by “Cyborgian writing teams” programmed “to write An. Meanwhile, narrative layers multiply, highlighting hybrid identity, Korean motherhood, and all manner of relationships. The narrator and dog-Frank’s owner, Donna, need answers, which will require finding Donna’s widowed birthmother, who’s trying to skyrocket to the moon. Curiosity begets theft multiple chases ensue. The story features a late Korean American pianist-turned-gamer named Frank Exit and his drone aficionado narrator friend, who becomes convinced that a stranger’s dog named Izzy (short for Izanami) is actually Frank’s reincarnation. The pre-prologue to the prologue opens as “A Warning to the Reader” with various cautions and enlightenments 152 dense pages later, gratification awaits.
For audiences in search of a quick slender read, Eugene Lim’s surreally quirky Search History is not it.
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