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How It Works Out

Myriam Lacroix

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Jonathan Cape Ltd
06 June 2024
What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it works out?

What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it works out?

'A stunner of a debut' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'A cause for celebration' GEORGE SAUNDERS 'Exhilaratingly good' KELLY LINK

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? 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 heartbreak, each reality builds to complete a brilliant and painfully funny portrait of love's many promises and perils.

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING-

'Wow. I will be reading everything Myriam Lacroix puts out'

'Everything Everywhere All at Once for U-haul lesbians... I'm diving in again'

'I haven't read anything like it before... Fantastic debut'
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Imprint:   Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 223mm,  Width: 144mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   336g
ISBN:   9781787334922
ISBN 10:   1787334929
Pages:   224
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Myriam Lacroix was born in Montreal to a Quebecois mother and a Moroccan father. 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 Salt Hill 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. She currently lives in Vancouver.

Reviews for How It Works Out

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. We loved it -- Tegan and Sara Quin, authors of High School 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, author of Lincoln in the Bardo Hilarious, heart-rending, grotesque, delightful, utterly brilliant -- Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under Lacroix has written a beautifully brilliant, hilariously sad, stunner of a debut that never forgets about the heart -- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars How It Works Out is madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good -- Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love Myriam Lacroix knows exactly how macabre love can be. With a biting (literally) wit Lacroix devises a startling multiverse where finding the love of your life is just the beginning of a surrealistic quest -- Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories I loved this book. It’s like nothing else I’ve read. Every single page kept me guessing – it's rare to read something so delightfully strange -- Kirsty Logan, author of Now She is Witch In How It Works Out, we see wonderfully different iterations of Myriam and Allison that all work together in the most satisfying and unexpected ways. Lacroix writes with a brave heart, a fiercely inventive mind, and a breathtaking ability to render it all in precise, stellar sentences. A hilarious, unsettling, and moving debut -- Dana Spiotta, author of Eat the Document The shape-shifting, speculative history of a Great Love, in which any distinction between what really happened, what might have happened, and what couldn’t possibly have happened is thrillingly moot. Funny and lusty and wistful and bold; best of all, it genuinely feels unlike anything you’ve read before -- Jonathan Dee, author of The Privileges


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