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How It Works Out
How It Works Out | Myriam Lacroix
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What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and deeply funny book is that everything exists to serve the compassionate heart at its core. Myriam Lacroixs work is a cause for celebration. GEORGE SAUNDERS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Liberation Day Surreal, darkly comic and achingly tender, Myriam Lacroix's exuberant debut sees a queer love story play out in many alternate realities. 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 Myriams depression was Allisons flesh? What if they were B-list celebrities, famous for writing a book about building healthy lesbian relationships? How much darkeror sexierwould 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 loves 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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Lindy
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Myriam and Allison‘s lesbian relationship will work itself out, one way or another. In a series of outlandish—sometimes grotesque—multiverse possibilities, this novel unfolds in stories. I chuckled often at the author‘s playful way with words and her sense of humour. Ultimately, I appreciated the warmth and the certainty that this couple will endure. #Canadian #LGBTQ

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Lindy
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We walked by a kitchen so full of supplements and mysterious countertop appliances it looked like the healthy version of a meth lab.

LiteraryinPA Ha, great line. 3mo
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Lindy
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“Whenever I think I want to travel, I just eat a croissant in a crowded place, and then I‘m over it.”

charl08 🤣🤣🤣 3mo
Lindy @charl08 I will keep this strategy in mind 😉 3mo
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Megabooks
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This was a surprise hit! Lacroix wrote about a presumably auto-fictional woman named Miriam and her relationship with Allison in various genres and milieus. A memorable horror one has them parents to children they slowly eat. In another, Allison runs an environmentally unfriendly company and wants to be punished by Miriam in an S&M relationship. In a tamer one, they take up running to get more in sync. Odd yet wonderful! #Bookspin

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 3mo
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sarahbarnes
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This was a mind-bending maze of a book, the story of the characters constantly evolving and turning back on itself. A fascinating approach to a story about trying to make a relationship work. I was sucked in and really enjoyed it, wanting to know what the next iteration of their story would be. I‘ll admit I‘m not sure what happened at the end, but a pick nonetheless.

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