{"product_id":"how-it-works-out","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","brand":"Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67930712899816,"sku":"9781419773518","price":25.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9539\/3512\/files\/imageloader_8dd7a602-572b-4752-81e2-ec3498874976.jpg?v=1792270511","url":"https:\/\/shop.kuumba.app\/products\/how-it-works-out","provider":"Kuumba","version":"1.0","type":"link"}