{"product_id":"how-it-works-out-9781419773518","title":"How It Works Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring.\" --GEORGE SAUNDERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good.\" --KELLY LINK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A delightfully bizarre and unabashedly queer revelation.\" --TEGAN and SARA QUIN \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A beautifully brilliant, hilariously sad stunner of a debut that never forgets about the heart.\" --NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if you had the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003echance to rewrite the course of your relationship, again and again, in the hopes that it would work out?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an alley? What if the only cure for Myriam's depression was Allison's flesh? What if they were B-list celebrities, famous for writing a book about building healthy lesbian relationships? How much darker--or sexier--would their dynamic be if one were a power-hungry CEO, and the other her lowly employee? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the fantasies of early romance to the slow encroaching of violence that unravels the fantasy, each reality builds to complete a brilliant, painfully funny portrait of love's many promises and perils. \u003cp\u003e Equal parts sexy and profane, unsentimental, and gut-wrenching, \u003ci\u003eHow It Works Out\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-bending, arresting, uncanny exploration of queerness, love, and our drive for connection, in any and all possible worlds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMyriam Lacroix\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Montreal to a Québécois mother and a Moroccan father, and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from Syracuse University, where she was editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eSalt Hill Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and received the New York Public Humanities Fellowship for creating Out-Front, an LGBTQ+ writing group whose goal was to expand the possibilities of queer writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591300256018,"sku":"9781419773518","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_232bdaae-518d-45dc-a6bb-3ba73c0cee74.jpg?v=1732089022","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-it-works-out-9781419773518","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}