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How It Works Out

How It Works Out

Summary

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'

Reviews

  • One of the quirkiest, and most rewarding, novels in recent memory
    Toronto Star

About the author

Myriam Lacroix

Myriam Lacroix was born in Montreal to a Québécois 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.
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