How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it worked 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? 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. 

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.

Equal parts sexy and profane, unsentimental and gut-wrenching, this book is a genre-bending, arresting, uncanny exploration of queerness, love, and our drive for connection, in any and all possible worlds.

‘A cause for celebration’ GEORGE SAUNDERS

‘A stunner of a debut’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH

'Hilarious, heart-rending, grotesque, delightful, utterly brilliant' DAISY JOHNSON

‘Exhilaratingly good’ KELLY LINK

Paperback / 224 pages