AUSTRALIA-WIDE LOW FLAT RATE $9.90

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

How It Works Out

Myriam Lacroix

$34.99

Paperback

In stock
Ready to ship

QTY:

English
JONATHAN CAPE
04 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'
By:  
Imprint:   JONATHAN CAPE
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   229g
ISBN:   9781787334939
ISBN 10:   1787334937
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
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

Cinematic... sharply evoked * Daily Mail * 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 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 Hilarious, heart-rending, grotesque, delightful, utterly brilliant -- Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under How It Works Out is madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good -- Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love


See Inside

See Also