{"product_id":"how-it-works-out-isbn-9781419773518","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 **\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring.” —GEORGE SAUNDERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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":"Harry N. Abrams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44894091215077,"sku":"NP9781419773518","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_e64f1f56-a022-40fa-bd9b-50696236c6ab.jpg?v=1773102724","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/how-it-works-out-isbn-9781419773518","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}