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Thea Lim's debut novel An Ocean of Minutes is a 'hidden autobiography'

Author Thea Lim explores time travel in a dystopian world wracked by pandemic in her first novel, An Ocean of Minutes. Lim talks to Tom Power about drawing on her own experience of growing up in Canada and Singapore to create this parable about immigration.
Thea Lim with Tom Power in the q studio in Toronto, Ont. (Vivian Rashotte/CBC)

Author Thea Lim explores time travel in a dystopian world wracked by pandemic in her first novel, An Ocean of Minutes. Lim talks to Tom Power about drawing on her own experience of growing up in Canada and Singapore to create this parable about immigration.

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