{"product_id":"your-love-is-not-good-9781913505660","title":"Your Love Is Not Good","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKirkus Reviews, \"Best Fiction of 2023\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn artist of color becomes\u003cbr\u003eobsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamor of Clarice Lispector and\u003cbr\u003ethe viscerality of Han Kang.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt\u003cbr\u003ean otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter\u003cbr\u003espots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterly\u003cbr\u003ewhite, the center of everyone's attention. Haunted into adulthood by her Korean\u003cbr\u003efather's abandonment of his family, as well as the specter of her beguiling, \u003cbr\u003eabusive white mother, the painter finds herself caught in a perfect trap. She wants\u003cbr\u003eHanne, or wants to be her, or to sully her, or destroy her, or consume her, or\u003cbr\u003esome confusion of all the above. Since she's an artist, she will use art to get\u003cbr\u003ecloser to Hanne, beginning a series of paintings with her new muse as model. As\u003cbr\u003efor Hanne, what does she want? Her whiteness seems sometimes as cruel as a new\u003cbr\u003esheet of paper. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen\u003cbr\u003ethe paintings of Hanne become a hit, resulting in the artist's first sold-out\u003cbr\u003eshow, she resolves to bring her new muse with her to Berlin, to continue their\u003cbr\u003ework, and her seduction. But, just when the painter is on the verge of her long\u003cbr\u003esought-after breakthrough, \u003cbr\u003ea petition started by a Black performance artist begins making the rounds in the\u003cbr\u003eart community, calling for the boycott of major museums and art galleries for their\u003cbr\u003eimperialist and racist practices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTorn\u003cbr\u003ebetween her desire to support the petition, to be a success, and to possess\u003cbr\u003eHanne, the painter and her reality become more unstable and\u003cbr\u003edisorienting, unwilling to cut loose\u003cbr\u003eany one of her warring ambitions, yet unable to accommodate them all. Is it any\u003cbr\u003ewonder so many artists self-destruct so spectacularly? Is it perhaps just a bit\u003cbr\u003eexciting to think she could too? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour\u003cbr\u003eLove Is Not Good\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003estuffs queer explosive into the cracks between identity and aspiration, between\u003cbr\u003edesire and art, and revels in the raining debris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and\u003cbr\u003emusician who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in\u003cbr\u003eLA and Berlin. Hedva is the author of the essay 'Sick Woman Theory', originally\u003cbr\u003epublished in 2016, which has now been translated into ten languages. Hedva is\u003cbr\u003ealso the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eOn Hell, \u003c\/i\u003e which was one of Dennis Cooper's\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003efavourite books of 2018, and the nonfiction\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecollection \u003ci\u003eMinerva\u003cbr\u003ethe Miscarriage of the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e. Their albums are \u003ci\u003eThe Sun and the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlack Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50617234620690,"sku":"9781913505660","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_006774e5-4f92-403b-b95f-11ad9f2dc808.jpg?v=1732514091","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/your-love-is-not-good-9781913505660","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}