How It Works Out: A Novel by Myriam Lacroix

How It Works Out: A Novel by Myriam Lacroix

** Longlisted for the 2024 Story Prize **

Audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring. --GEORGE SAUNDERS

Madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good. --KELLY LINK

A delightfully bizarre and unabashedly queer revelation. --TEGAN and SARA QUIN

A beautifully brilliant, hilariously sad stunner of a debut that never forgets about the heart. --NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH

What if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship, again and again, in the hopes that it would work out?

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:

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?

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.

Equal parts sexy and profane, unsentimental, and gut-wrenching, How It Works Out is a genre-bending, arresting, uncanny exploration of queerness, love, and our drive for connection, in any and all possible worlds.

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ISBN 13	9781419773518
ISBN 10	1419773518
Title	How It Works Out: A Novel
Author	Lacroix Myriam
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Overlook Press
Year published	2024-05-07
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.