How It Works Out

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Surreal, darkly comic and achingly tender, Myriam Lacroix's exuberant debut sees a queer love story play out in many alternate realities 'A cause for celebration' GEORGE SAUNDERS, author of Lincoln in the Bardo 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 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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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 Lacroix's work is a cause for celebration -- George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
How It Works Out is a delightfully bizarre and unabashedly queer revelation; a truly captivating exploration of love. Myriam Lacroix's kaleidoscopic first novel invites you to embrace the unconventional and revel in the multiverse of 'what-ifs' we only wish we could explore in our own relationships. I loved it -- Tegan & Sara Quin, authors of High School
I loved this book. Its like nothing else Ive read. Every single page kept me guessing it's rare to read something so delightfully strange -- Kirsty Logan, author of Now She is Witch

Author Bio

Myriam Lacroix is a Quebecois-Moroccan writer with an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where she was editor in chief of Salt Hill. In 2019 she received the Public Humanities Fellowship for founding Out-Front, an LGBTQ+ writing group whose goal was to reimagine the possibilities of queer writing. How It Works Out is her first novel.