{"product_id":"how-it-works-out-9781419773518","title":"How It Works Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** Shortlisted for the 2025 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award ** Shortlisted for the 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award ** Longlisted for the 2024 Story Prize ** \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring.\" --GEORGE SAUNDERS\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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Myriam LaCroix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Overlook Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781419773518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43778241429619,"sku":"9.78142E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_e8b69f76-8060-4702-aa48-34a7de6f304b.jpg?v=1757506982","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/how-it-works-out-9781419773518","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}