How It Works Out

De: Myriam Lacroix

Narrado por: Anika Venkatesh, Lucy Ellis

“Audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring.”—GEORGE SAUNDERS

“Madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good.”—KELLY LINK

“A delightfully bizarre and unabashedly queer revelation.”—TEGAN and SARA QUIN

“A beautifully brilliant, hilariously sad stunner of a debut that never forgets about the heart.”—NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH

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.

©2024 Myriam Lacroix (P)2024 Doubleday Canada

Reseñas de la Crítica

"[A] provocative first novel . . . Lacroix’s experiments with a multiverse structure and body horror generate potent symbols for the struggles of queer relationships, as does her biting wit . . . Readers won’t soon forget Lacroix’s singular voice."—Publishers Weekly

"[A] mesmerizing novel-in-stories. . . . No matter the scenario, Lacroix shows a gift for cutting to the heart of things: the way you inevitably open yourself up to both injury and transformation when you try to love and be loved. . . . As kaleidoscopic as the queer experience, this is an introduction to a writer of great imagination."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"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 & SARA QUIN, New York Times bestselling authors of High School