Alex Foster received his MFA from New York University, where he served as fiction editor of Washington Square Review. Previously, he studied economics at the University of Chicago and conducted research for the U.S. government and for the World Bank's Gender Innovation Lab in West Africa. Circular Motion is his first novel.
An impressive debut. Foster is a writer of imaginative daring and narrative dexterity -- Jeffrey Eugenides Circular Motion is a gift: every paragraph offers something to make you think, laugh, feel or simply look up from the page and sigh in awe or recognition. -- Jonathan Safran Foer I'm a sucker for doomsday novels, but Circular Motion sucker-punched me right in the heart. Brilliantly written and utterly absorbing. Who needs gravity when Alex Foster keeps you absolutely grounded in his prose -- Gary Shteyngart A deep investigation of how time is valued in contemporary society, while also being a deftly plotted page-turner. I read it in just a couple of sittings; time flew -- Vauhini Vara, Pulitzer Prize finalist for THE IMMORTAL KING RAO