{"product_id":"how-it-works-out-hardcover","title":"How It Works Out - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMyriam LaCroix\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752779612448,"sku":"9781419773518","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/48b365ba4db0b7bb9a9e00d60a4a88ea.webp?v=1780003755","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-it-works-out-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}