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Thea Lim is the author of An Ocean of Minutes, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Thea Lim's writing has been published by Granta, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Salon, The Southampton Review and others. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston and she previously served as nonfiction editor at Gulf Coast. She grew up in Singapore and lives in Toronto with her family, where she is a professor of creative writing. ...more

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Average rating: 3.42 · 6,960 ratings · 1,203 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	An Ocean of Minutes 3.42 avg rating — 6,907 ratings — published 2018 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Just as the invention of air travel had made it easy to go, but no easier to leave, the invention of time travel made time easy to pass, but no easier to endure.”
― Thea Lim, An Ocean of Minutes

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“Somewhere a great epiphany broke forth: there’s only ever going to be one of every day; there will be other days, but they won’t be this day.”
― Thea Lim, An Ocean of Minutes

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